The Auswine Forum

Apologies to Gavin - I’ll delete if it’s breaking any rules - but saw this today in a national chain and could not believe they were using ‘Vegan’ to push one of the most expensive and well known wine brands. Apparently instructions have come down from high up and they will be putting ‘vegan’ on everything they can, including old rare whiskey.

Geez I’ll take a dozen if 2008

2009 Jamie. Only 2 bottles in the shop and I left them on the shelf.

I'm kinda curious how LVMH warrants Dom is Vegan. Its not hard in small batches, basically avoid Isinglas and egg white and the like in any fining processes, but in large multisourced wines its a lot harder,

One wonders if indeed it was LVMH making the claim, or an over-enthusiastic person with the 'vegan' label gun.

156 AUD is damn cheap....wait are we talking about Vegan?

After working on a sorting table a few times at harvest, I think technically vegan wine does not exist. The may not use milk or egg products in the fining process, but there are plenty of bees, spiders, cockroaches, you name it that make it into a ferment even in a hand harvested and heavily sorted environment. Mass produced machine harvested even worse. I have heard of a sheep being machine harvested before

So, yeah, keep on going with your virtue signalling and feeling good, but in reality it ain't no vegan wine