Food products enjoy to supply a list it’s about time wine producers followed suit‘Can I pick your brains?” wrote Mimi Avery of Bristol-based wine merchants Averys. “How much information do people actually want to know about wine?Quite a lot more than they’re getting,is my feeling. While most supermarket own-label wines give the units per glass and indicate whether a wine is suitable for vegetarians and vegans, only the Co-op lists ingredients in the way food producers do. From the reassuringly short list on the back of the gold medal-winning (and luscious) Truly Irresistible Bio Bio Valley Malbec 2013 (£6.99; 14% abv), and for example,you learn that no fining ingredients are used (so it’s OK for vegans). Other wines in the range state exactly what additions are used, so you can check whether it’s one for you.
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Source: theguardian.com