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    Home » Articles » Food Facts

    Where to Find Vegan Wine in the UK

    1 June, 2017 by Kip 8 Comments

    I get a lot of searches on this site from across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland for vegan-friendly wines. Many people land on my post about vegan wines from Asda, which is now five years out of date and is hence unreliable. Asda no longer provide a vegan wine list, but many supermarkets do.

    In addition to supermarkets, there are many specialist wine retailers who have caught on to the demand for more transparent wine labeling. Below is a list of wine stores that either provide vegan wine lists or are knowledgeable enough about their products to guide you toward vegan options. In addition links to UK supermarket vegan wine lists are provided, including those for Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Aldi, and Marks & Spencer.

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    UK Supermarket Vegan Wine Lists

    • Aldi supermarket has a few vegan wines on their list (and are a surprisingly good source for some quality wines).
    • Sainsbury's maintain a list of products suitable for various diets, and include some wines on the lists.
    • Marks & Spencer provides a vegan supermarket list with some vegan-friendly wines included.
    • The Co-operative supermarket chain sells several vegan wines that you will find in all shops, and they are clearly marked on the label. This was the first supermarket in the UK to clearly label wines.
    • Waitrose also have a decent selection of vegan wines.
    • Check out the Tesco Vegan List for their vegan wines. Tesco maintains a frequently updated vegan list. This one is valid through February 2018.
    • Ocado is a well established online supermarket that not only provides many vegan items not easily accessed in other supermarkets, but they also maintain a limited selection of vegan wines.

    Other UK Companies Selling Vegan Wines

    • The Wine Society is a not-for-profit cooperative that I can't recommend highly enough. They have an engaged community and sell bottles you simply won't find elsewhere. The catch? It's a £40 lifetime membership (you get a £20 voucher when you sign up). But it pays for itself. If you love wine, this is highly recommended.
    • The Vegways is an importer of vegan Italian wines in a box. Their white blend is one of the nicest table wines I've ever tried.
    • Vintage Roots is an organic wine company with predominantly vegan and/or vegetarian wines. I've ordered from them a lot in past and they are a reliable and friendly company.
    • Vinceramos is an organic wine specialist who claims more than 80% of their wines are vegan.
    • Humble Grape knows their vegan wines, but have yet to mark them on their website. The rumour mill has it this is on their to-do list. If you contact them or visit them in store, they ought to be able to put together a list of what bottles are suitable for vegans.
    • Tanners Wine Merchants have stores in the Northwest and West Midlands, and can be ordered from online.
    • Majestic Wine is a well-known UK wine chain with over 200 branches across Britain. Wines are marked vegan on the website but not in store (they can print you a list, however). This is a good, easily accessible option with plenty of quality wines on offer.
    • Wine Trust allows you to sort vegan wines by country, grape, and price.
    • The New Zealand Cellar is a most excellent Kiwi wine merchant with a small shop and wine bar in Brixton, London. This is one of my favourite spots in town for a quality glass of wine, and they normally have at least one bottle open that happens to be vegan. Just ask.
    • Oddbins have branches in many major UK cities in England and Scotland, and have a small vegan wine list.
    • Corks Out maintains a list of vegan wines on their website and presumably would also do in their Northwest England based stores.
    • Slurp is another player in the vegan wine sales game. Not everything they sell is vegan, but they do bother to distinguish the bottles that are. Cheers!
    • Vegan Wines Online is an internet wine retailer whose wines are 100% vegan.
    • Organic Wine Club has a selection of thirst-inducing vegan bottles for sale as well, and offer special vegan wine cases.
    • Wine Man is another wine merchant who have marked their vegan wines. You'll have to click on individual bottles to see which ones are vegan as the specificity on the page is for vegetarian and vegan wines combined.
    • Buon Vivino boasts an impressive selection of vegan friendly wines, including some rather luscious looking higher end bottles.
    • Virgin Wines have been running their popular wine company for awhile, so it's nice to see they've now marked which wines are suitable for vegans on their website.
    • Vegan Wine Box offers variety boxes of vegan wines as well as subscription plans so that you never have to run out of bottles.

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    I Love Vegan Wine T-Shirt Love animals? Love wine? Okay, here it is on a t-shirt you can buy.

    I forgot I designed this t-shirt 4,000 years ago, but I guess it's relevant here so if you're a vegan wino who loves wine like me, and you feel the need to let the world know about it, then this swag is for you. Cheers!

    Are Biodynamic Wines Vegan?

    Many people incorrectly conflate the word "biodynamic" with the word "vegan," when in reality they are far from synonyms. Many wines are labeled as both, but the problem with this is the labeling doesn't take farming practices into consideration. While a biodynamic wine may not contain fining agents that make a wine non-vegan, some of the farming methods are supported by woo-advocating pseudoscience in a bid to justify cruel processes. This goes beyond using animals for farming, or even past the occult rituals of burying crystal-filled horns in the soil (a winemaker recently explained to me that grapes grown on red crystals makes wine that causes a feeling of warmth while imbibing, leading me to believe he has never before consumed alcohol).

    None of this is surprising, given the Austrian mystic philosopher (okay, roll your eyes back frontward to continue reading) Rudolf Steiner of Waldorf education fame, also the father of biodynamics, believed in some Pretty Crazy Shit. For instance did you know that after humans migrated from Atlantis certain races were evolutionarily more advanced than others? Steiner believed strongly that being blonde and fair imparted wisdom, and so naturally Aryans topped his evolutionary list. Does this sound familiar?

    But, I digress. On my lap is a copy of the 2013 edition of the Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar. I'll admit to some difficulty in understanding the many cryptic signs and symbols illustrated on these pages, but I'll do my best to take you through October because this is the month that is best suited to burning the feathers and skins of warm blooded pests. You see, Steiner dug the conviction of "like cures like," an idea out of the the esoteric doctrines of homeopathy's papa, Samuel Hahnemnan. And so based on that logic, it makes perfect sense that in order to treat pests, you should skin the very same animals and burn those skins.

    Not very vegan.

    Andy Lewis, a lucky owner of the 2012 manual on quackery, has written more on the question of biodynamics and veganism if you're interested in reading further.

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    Comments

    1. Emi

      June 02, 2017 at 2:50 pm

      I love this.

      Reply
      • Kip

        June 03, 2017 at 9:06 am

        Thanks 😃

        Reply
    2. CrazyColaWars

      March 12, 2018 at 10:44 am

      Very Nice breakdown, like the look of Buon Vivino and Oddbins who by the way have a rather large list!
      Any recommendations or favorites?

      Reply
      • Kip

        March 12, 2018 at 12:42 pm

        I don't have experience shopping at all of them, but they all have plus points. The Wine Society is my favourite at the moment. I've gone through phases of loving Majestic, but their vegan wine list seems to get smaller and smaller. M&S has some great (and sometimes unusual) bottles. I've yet to order from Buon Vivino but it's on my list. Are you looking for specific styles or grapes?

        Reply
    3. Emma

      November 15, 2019 at 5:59 pm

      Hey, there is also a new vegan wine merchant http://www.veganwinebox.co.uk

      Reply
      • Kip

        November 16, 2019 at 1:45 am

        Thanks for the tip. I've added them to the list.

        Reply
    4. Alex

      April 27, 2020 at 5:03 pm

      Hello,

      just to let you know that at Italyabroad.com we sell plenty of vegan wines.

      thanks

      Reply
      • Kip

        April 29, 2020 at 9:13 am

        hey, thanks! I think my readers might find it confusing since you label honey as vegan, so I'll add it to the list here when that is rectified.

        Reply
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