Most wine — even "organic" — is made with animal inputs you'd never expect. Frances Gonzalez personally visits every winery, verifies every practice, and negotiates exclusive prices. Just for you.
Most people assume wine is plant-based. It's made from grapes, after all. But the reality is more complicated — and most producers don't advertise it.
Even organic vineyards routinely use bone meal, blood meal, and fish emulsion as fertilizers. These are slaughterhouse byproducts applied directly to the soil your wine grows in.
After fermentation, most wineries use animal-derived fining agents — egg whites, casein (milk protein), isinglass (fish bladder), or gelatin — to clarify the wine before bottling. They don't appear on the label.
A family estate in Lodi specializing in Spanish varietals — Albariño, Tempranillo, Garnacha — grown on organic soil without animal inputs. I visited the vineyard myself, tasted through their entire lineup, and these are two bundles I'm proud to put my name on.
Six distinct expressions of Spanish varietals, grown in Lodi's warm days and cool nights. Each one something to linger over.
Extraordinary wine and ethical sourcing are not opposites. Every winery on this site has been visited, tasted, and verified by Frances — because you deserve to drink beautifully and with a clear conscience.
"I built Vegan Wines because I wanted to drink ethically without giving up beauty. Every winery I feature reflects that — integrity in the vineyard, in the cellar, and in the glass."
I've been vegan for over 30 years. I've spent nearly a decade studying wine. When I realized that even the wines I loved were grown in soil fed by slaughterhouse byproducts, I couldn't look away.
So I started looking for wineries that shared my values. I visited them personally. I tasted through their cellars. I built Vegan Wines to share what I found — wines that are extraordinary and entirely plant-based, from the soil to the sip.
I also farm biocyclically at Little Logan's Farm in Hudson Valley, New York — the first biocyclic vegan farm in the USA.
— Frances Gonzalez
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