I bought a lovely-sounding New Zealand wine called Sacred Hill Whitecliff Sauvignon Blanc. I brought it home and was putting it away, when I noticed in small letters on the back label: "This wine may contain traces of fish products"
WTF? How do fish products get into wine?
I sent the winery a polite and curious email. Hopefully they'll respond. I'm going to have to take the wine back, but I'm more curious than anything else.
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Update: The winery sent me a very prompt and informative response. I'm not going to quote it in its entirely because I'm not sure how kosher it is to quote someone in your blog without their permission, but I will give a brief paraphrase. Any incorrect information would probably be the result of my own mis-summarization and should not be intended to be the word of the winery.
There is a product called "islinglass", which is a protein found in a fish's bladder, is used to improve clarity of the wine by removing unwanted compounds. The protein attracts unwanted compounds through normal molecular reaction, and once it has reacted with the unwanted compounds is becomes a precipitate. They then clean and filter the precipitate out of the wine. So if all goes correctly, there will be no fish products whatsoever in the wine, and if some makes it through the filtering process it's only the very smallest trace amounts that, until recent technological advancements, were undetectable. The winemaker described the potential amounts as "like a sprinkling of salt in the average swimming pool". Apparently they also use milk products or egg products for different varieties of wine.
This is all very interesting, and I must give mad props to the people at Sacred Hill Winery for giving me a prompt (within one hour!) and completely thorough and transparent answer! That was very excellent customer service on their part!
I won't be able to drink the bottle of white that I purchased, but when I exchange it I will pick out another bottle of their wine of equal or greater value that does not contain fish products, simply because I do not want them to lose this sale after providing me with such excellent customer service!
I would warn you that you will need to do some very careful searching to find a wine made without fish (or eggs or milk, for that matter). So many wines do contain trace animal products used in the filtration process. However, in North America and elsewhere, labeling animal products is not mandatory. In fact, I've never seen a bottle label its animal products over here. New Zealand is one of the only countries (if not the only!) which requires labeling. So yeah... you'll have to call up every individual winery itself to ensure no fish is in their wine.
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Australian(2 bottles we found last week) wine bottles carry the label information "may contain traces of fish, milk or eggs" We got a very big shock after reviewing the label!
Obviously those silly people making wine for the last however many centurys/millenium's didnt know how to make wine!!!!
Last night my partner read me out the ingredients of our bottle of Merlot and I thought he was joking when he mentioned, fish, eggs and dairy. Since I'm a vegetarian, I am not into supporting the taking of lives of animals including fish, even if no traces are left in them. I find it odd and just can't fathom how after centuries of wine making, they now have to flip fish into the equation. ??????????? We also discovered that some mayonnaise we bought had fish in it too. It gets a bit aggravating having to read every label of common every day foods. Oh well. Looks like whole foods is the only way to go eh!
i have a fish allergy and seem to react to some wines. i'd therefore like to know if anyone has already looked into which manufacturers use fish in their wine making process or knows of a website that addresses this before i spend time contacting the manufacturers.
Only wines labeled "certified organic" do not contain more than what is on the label. There are many ingredients that go into wine making that do not have to appear on the label. This isn't a new practice, it has been going on since wine making began.
So has anyone found a wine that does not contain fish products? and if so could I please have the name or names?
The Co-op in the UK sells specifically vegan wine, labelled as such.
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