New Zealand Wineries Required to list Fining Agents
The next time you buy a bottle of wine from New Zealand, check out the label. You might be surprised to find a disclosure like, “fined with milk product”, or, “softened with egg whites”, or perhaps, “clarified with sturgeon bladder” (Although I’m sure they’ll use the less offensive phrase for that, ‘clarified with Isinglass’). Although these fining agents may no longer be present in the wine, by law, New Zealand wineries are now required to list the additives used in their wines. Sulfites, the most commonly known additive, must also be disclosed, but wording may be “Contains Preservative 220″ or something similar. An article to the chronicle last year by Dan Berger dissected some of the additives in wine.
Read [nzherald.co]
