Vegan Wine Tasting | 5 Top Vegan Wineries To Visit in Napa

Wine tasting in California's wine country is a joyous experience. Even looking for vegan wine tasting options can be a breeze with many great options. Planning a vegan wine tasting trip just requires a little more advanced planning. Not every winery is going to offer vegan options, so we hope to make it easier for you. This tasting plan for the Napa Valley features some top wineries with Vegan wines available. We will put together options in the other major wine tasting regions of California soon.

Here is a quick explanation why we even need this list for vegan wine tasting. Many of you are probably thinking, wine is make of grapes and grapes are fruit. Vegans eat fruit of course. So what's the deal with wine? Consumers like their wine to be clear. White wine is expected to be clear, not cloudy. Many wine consumers equate the clarity of the wine with the quality. This even extends to red wines to a degree.

Wineries like to sell wine. If consumers want clear wines, the wineries are going to give them what they want. When you make wine from grapes, there are sediments that form during the process. These little particles are suspended in the liquid and make it cloudy.

This is where the process of "fining" comes in. Winemakers discovered methods for removing these solids from the wine. This allows them to deliver clear wines to consumers. So what is the problem for vegan wine tasters? Unfortunately, the majority of wineries use animal proteins to bind with and consolidate the tiny particles, The combined particles then fall to the bottom as sediment and this allows for easy removal. Egg whites, collagen (animal protein), and even a substance extracted from fish bladders are used to bind with the tiny particles and force them to settle. The wines aren't labeled with substances used for fining, so vegans need to do their research.

Fortunately, we've done some research for you and we are happy to share it.