What we said in July 2012 about vegan wines in supermarkets and in particular online.
Supermarkets – Vegan Wines
Supermarkets are excellent at marketing themselves and their products. The question is, how much of the supermarket wine is suitable for vegans?
Total | Vegan | %age Vegan | Comments | |
| ASDA | Bad labelling or no vegan wines at ASDA? | |||
| All red wines | 234 | 1 | 0.4% | |
| All rose wines | 97 | 1 | 1% | |
| All white wines | 244 | 0 | 0 | |
| Marks & Spencer | A shame M & S vegan wines not easy to find. | |||
| Individually checked | 20 | 5 | 25% | |
| Morrisons | ||||
| All red wines | 206 | 21 | 10% | |
| All rose wines | 46 | 1 | 2% | |
| All white wines | 204 | 15 | 7.4% | |
| Sainsburys | A shame Sainsbury’s vegan wines not easy to find. | |||
| Individually checked | 50 | 9 | 18% | |
| Tesco | Bad labelling or no vegan wines at Tesco? | |||
| All red wines | 464 | 1 | 0.2% | |
| All rose wines | 71 | 0 | 0 | |
| All white wines | 368 | 1 | 0.3% | |
| Waitrose | Believe Waitrose has more, why not label them? | |||
| All wines | 743 | 12 | 1.6% | |
| Waitrose Wine Direct | Dietary information not provided | |||
| Co-op | By all accounts one of the best selections instore but not online. | |||
We have undertaken research into those supermarkets listed above. This was done in late July 2012, information was taken from their own websites. We fully acknowledge the information may change day by day. We also accept that some samples taken are a bit crude, this is due to the supermarket websites making it difficult to summarise this information. We would welcome comments from you or the supermarkets themselves if it is felt that any of the information presented is inaccurate. Once we receive any requests concerning the statistics we will review the supermarket websites again and if appropriate amend this page.
Vegan wine is easier to find on some supermarket websites than others. Disappointingly, on both the Sainsburys’ and Marks & Spencers’ websites you need to check each wine individually. On Morrisons’ the labelling is clearer and you do not need to click through to the individual wine. Using Tesco, Asda and Waitrose you can select by wine types including vegan wines – but then they do not offer any!
It is possible that the supermarkets simply do not label their wines clearly enough. If that is the case, they should stop being so lazy and label vegan wine as such – the same applies to vegetarian wines.
From visits to the stores themselves we can see that much of the labelling of vegan wines at supermarkets is in store. We congratulate those that provide clear in store information, however would ask why they do not bother online?
Further information: we understand that many of the supermarkets, including Asda do have lists of their wines suitable for vegans available on request.
Additives in Wine
Bio-Dynamic Wine
Low Sulphur Wine
Organic Wine
Check out our vegan wines in supermarkets survey 2014 update
