breakfast: coffee
lunch: leftover tabbouleh with chickpeas, leftover bean soup
appetizers: a little leftover chili cooked by Jonah, BBQ vegan “chicken” from Trader Joe’s, pretzels, whiskey, Dogfish Head
dinner: pasta with Earth Balance, salt, pepper, and green onions (what everyone else was eating minus the caviar…. eewwwwwww); fava beans with broccoli rabe; shiitake and button mushrooms; wine
I learned recently that wine, particularly white wine, is often processed with gelatin or milk-derived ingredients and is not vegan. The Penguin Bay Percussion white wine I had tonight was NOT vegan, according to an article I later found about vegan-friendly wines of the Finger Lakes region on The Ginger Cat Bed & Breakfast website:
From the head winemaker (a friend of ours) for Swedish Hill, Goose Watch and Penguin Bay:
“- Not many of our wines are vegan. We use milk derived fining agents in some of our white wines before they are fermented. Because most of these treated wines are blended with all of the other (untreated) wines, it technically would make the wines they’re blended with non-vegan (at least by association).I can safely say that any DRY RED wines from the 06 vintage (my first vintage as head winemaker) have not had any animal based agents added to them.”
Swedish Hill: Any DRY RED wines from the 06 vintage onward have not had any animal based agents added to them. These would include Swedish Hill Optimus and Cabernet Franc
Goose Watch: Any DRY REDwines from the 06 vintage onward which include the Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Lemberger.
Penguin Bay: The Only Dry Red, the Pinot noir, is vegan
Oops. After seeing how many companies specify that none of their white wines are vegan, I am going to start assuming that white wine is not vegan unless otherwise specified.
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