n the market, some wines are filtered to be bottled, and some are bottled directly without filtering. Used in the process of filtering medium for judging whether a wine is suitable for vegetarians drinking is most key, let's take a look at the learning.
How to determine if a wine is suitable for vegetarians?
To determine whether a wine is suitable for vegetarians, the key depends on what material to use it for clarification and filtering, to remove suspended solids in liquor, wine became clear clarity. Can be used to clarify and filter the wine material has a variety of sources, some extracted from fish and other animals, some of the extracted from dairy products, some are extracted from clay or synthetic material. However, some wine producers do not filter their wines, and this is a time when they do not have to consider the issue of the filter medium. Unfiltered wine is a vegetarian drink that is suitable for all vegetarians.
Strictly speaking, all the material used to clarification and filtering the wine will not be needed at the end of the filter in wine, but because they are on the way come into contact with wine, so for vegetarians, filter medium became a question worth considering.
If a wine is clarified and filtered by the following substances or methods, it is suitable for vegetarians to drink:
(1) Bentonite;
(2) crosslinked polyethylene pyrrolione (PVPP);
(3) the Tangential Filter;
(4) no filtering.
Second, if a wine is made from the following material for clarification and filtration, it is suitable for vegetarians, but is not suitable for vegans drink:
(1) Casein (from milk);
(2) Albumen.
Third, if a wine is made from the following material for clarification and filtration, it is neither suitable for vegetarians, also is not suitable for vegans drink:
(1) Gelatine Isinglass;
(2) animal dried blood (which is now largely prohibited from using such substances to filter wine).
