Vegan wine for miles
London Vegan Beer Fest is about beer, food and music.
Oh, yeah. It is also about vegan wine. A hell of a lot of vegan wine.
If you are one of those people holding off on coming along to London Vegan Beer Fest because you only drink vino, the following list is going to be the thing that tips you over the edge.
Our exclusive vegan wine bar is hosted by Sustainable Wines UK founder Tulip. Tulip has recently launched an eco-friendly wine bar in Enfield and sells a lot of cruelty-free wine online. You can read about Tulip’s wine businesses here.
Keep scrolling down to see the MAMMOTH list of vegan wines Sustainable Wines UK will be pouring at London Vegan Beer Fest in two days time.
It’s incredible.
| WHITE | |||
| NEW ZEALAND | |||
| Millton Te Arai Chenin Blanc | Chenin | 14% | In the ‘1001 Wines to try before you die’ book! Fresh lime zest and fragrant gardenias, fine wool and bush honey, quince and ripe bouche pear |
| FRANCE | |||
| Picpoul, Olivier Azan | Picpoul de Pinet | 13% | Fresh and dry with citrus fruit notes, pleasing nutty minerality, lick of salted nut and preserved lemon |
| Viognier, Languedoc | Viognier | 13% | Typical mango, apricot and peach flavours, beautifully smooth and creamy texture |
| Grenache Blanc Roussanne, Virgile Joly | Grenache Blanc
Roussane |
13.5% | white spice, peachy, fruit-driven, vibrant minerality, rich, full-flavoured, unoaked |
| Chardonnay ‘La Marouette’ | Chardonnay | 13.5% | lemon and tropical fruit nose, gently oaked buttery-ness, hint of honey, dry finish |
| ITALY | |||
| Pinot Grigio ‘La Corte del Pozzo’, Fasoli Gino 2013 | Pinot Gris | 12.5% | light, dry white, appealing tropical notes, fruit-forward, nutty and honeyed |
| Fiano, Feudo di Santa Tresa, Sicily (Italy) | Fiano | 13% | creamy peach and nutty straw flavours, mineral and citrus undercurrents, spicy and nutty nuances |
| UK | |||
| Davenport Horsmonden Dry White | Ortega/Faber/
Siegerrebe/ Bacchus/ Huxelrebe |
11.5% | lovely elderflower perfume with floral and lime aromas, zesty freshness, great concentration of apple and yeasty flavours |
| SPARKLING | |||
| Prosecco Casa Coste Piane, Valdobbiadene (Italy) | Glera | 11% | Light, appley, citrus, very fine bubbles, hazy, natural appearance. Stylish, elegant, made like Champagne |
| Prosecco Sgajo, Perlage | Cortese di Gavi | 11% | fine and persistent bubbles with notes of apples, apricots and even some banana! |
| Champagne, Jose Ardinat | Pinot Noir/
Chardonnay |
12% | Dry and refreshing with exquisite nutty aromas and a flavoursome punchy style. |
| Rosé | |||
| Rosé Domaine du Jas d’Esclans | Cinsault/Grenache/
Syrah |
13% | notes of crushed strawberries; lighter, cherry tinged and sophisticated |
| RED | |||
| NEW ZEALAND | |||
| Pinot Noir, Richmond Plains, Nelson 2011 | Pinot Noir | 13.50% | dark cherry nose with chocolate and raspberry, the palate has earthy, forest fruits with cherry. |
| Cosmo Red Blend, Millton, Gisborne 2007 (NZ) – Biodynamic | Malbec/Syrah/
Viognier |
12% | dark, lifted Asian spice, tingling aromas of mint, chocolate. A distinctive Malbec blend unique to James Millton |
| FRANCE | |||
| Valreas, Cotes du Rhone Villages, Domaine de la Grande Bellane | Grenache/Syrah/
Mourvedre |
14.50% | Brambly/plummy fruit, cinnamon and pepper notes |
| Les Trois Terrasses, Mas Gabriel, Languedoc-Roussillon | Carignan/Syrah/
Grenache |
12.5% | cassis, black olives and wild herbs (“la garrigue”). Fine tannins with delicious fruit and savoury notes |
| Merlot La Marouette, Languedoc-Roussillon | Merlot | 13% | plummy, damsons, violets and spicy fruit, succulent |
| Bourgogne Rouge no added sulphur | Pinot Noir | 12.5% | ripe strawberry nose, rich full-fruited redcurrant flavours, light New World style |
| ITALY | |||
| Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Barrique ‘Bucaro’DOC 2012 | Montepulciano | 13.5% | lusciously flavoursome barrique-aged wine, with deep ripe dark berry fruit |
| Valpolicella La Corte del Pozzo | Corvina/Rondinella | 14% | enchanting soft red with smooth, ripe, dark fruit flavours |
| Chianti Classico | Sangiovese/
Canaiolo/Colorino |
14.5% | crushed black fruits and spice, rich layers of dark cherry and blackcurrant |
| UK GUEST WINES | |||
| WHITES | |||
| Monty’s Pet Nat | Chardonnay | 9.5% | very light, lively, fresh; ripe pear, zest and citrus on the nose |
| Davenport Limney Estate Sparkling 2011 (UK) | Pinot Noir/Auxerrois | 11.5% | yeasty autolysis flavours balanced superbly by the strong Pinot Noir character |
Wow. It is an impressive list, to be sure.
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It’s a shame the wine selection at the Beer Festival was emphasised before now. I’ve spoken to a couple of people who said they would have come had they known earlier. Unfortunately they’re now committed to other things but perhaps this is something to think about when advertising the next one?
I talked about the wine pop up in most updates and posts about the event going back about 4 months.