More news on the vegetarian wine issue that was blogged about on April 26, Canada has made a step forward in making drinking wine an easier task for vegetarians. Starting the summer of 2012 bottles of wine from Canada or being sold in Canada must contain a warning if they may contain traces of non-vegetarian substances from the sediment gathering agent. Basically this means that if the wine maker used milk protein, egg white, or animal gelatins to clear the sediments from the wine that they must say so on the label. This was originally done to alert people with allergies and food intolerances but is just as useful to vegetarians struggling in a meat eating world.
While not everyone, or even a large percent, is a vegetarian it is nice to know what is in the wine. And maybe with this vegetarian adventure into wine more vegans will soon be able to grab their corkscrews without consuming anything against their diet. Synthetic sediment clearers and clay can be used with almost as good effects as animal products. It is heartening to think that in a few years there will be few reasons to question the quality and ingredients of anything wither it is a bottle of wine with friends or something at a nice restaurant.
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