fish and eggs in australian wines?

[cheschire]

I spent 6 months in australia recently and I wanna know why they would put "may contain fish and egg products" on the box wine? It was truly nasty wine as in $9.99 for 1 gallon. And no it wasn't cooking wine.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Most processed beer and wine has some of these products. Fining and other treatment agents are derived from fish stomachs and other weird products.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

I believe isinglass is used as a clarifying agent in wine. Not sure about the eggs.

PS: A quick google search confirms, and states that egg based products are used in the same way.

 

[cheschire]

ok thats good to know I wasnt drinking some crazy fish sauce fermented product... kinda tasted like it though

 

[summersolstice]

Chitosan, made from shellfish, and egg whites are both commonly used to clarify wine and both are common allergens.

 

[accroul]

You truely get what you pay for! at $9.99, Cardboard Chateau is the cheapest of cheap. A more expensive bottle which may have still had fish and egg product, would be likely to have tasted far better.

 

[the_bird]

Yeah, you weren't tasting the finings, all that stuff settles out (that's the point).

 

[gregbathurst]

Wineries used to add tannins which came from walnut shells, they had to stop rather than say "may contail nut products".
Remember, that was $10 aussie, which is $8 US or $9 Canadian. pretty cheap stuff. Why would you come all the way to Australia just to sample our worst wine?

 

[ChshreCat]

Isinglass is made from the swim bladders of fish.

 

[svengoat]

Why would you come all the way to Australia just to sample our worst wine?

LMAO....

 

[etp777]

pretty cheap stuff. Why would you come all the way to Australia just to sample our worst wine?

I thought those were the ones you exported to us here? Isn't that what barefoot means in australian? Or maybe it was Little Penguin.

 

[landcruiser]

I spent 6 months in australia recently and I wanna know why they would put "may contain fish and egg products" on the box wine? It was truly nasty wine as in $9.99 for 1 gallon. And no it wasn't cooking wine.

Your talking about Goon wine, it's cheap 5-10 dollars for a box and get you really hammered. I got sick everytime, but it was a good type sick.

I would love to try making it myself (any recipes would be apreciated