Frog's Leap Winery 2012 Merlot is Vegan Friendly

Company email (August 2023):
"The only recent non-vegan wine, is the 2019 Estate Cab, and even then, we only treated one component (LOT) of the entire blend.

We do not, as a practice, use any animal-derived products - not in our fining (bentonite) or choice of filters. It is rare, but when we do use animal product, it is egg whites."

Company email (April 2015):
[Asked about red wines only]
"I completely understand the origin of your inquiry and I am very pleased to say that the in the last few years we have made the conscious move away from using animal products in the production of our wines whenever possible.

Please see below a list of our current release wines (as well as vintages on deck to be released soon) and whether or not animal products were used in fining or production of each.

2012 Merlot vegan
2013 Chardonnay vegan
2012 and 2013 Heritage Blend vegan
2012 and 2013 Petite Sirah vegan
2013 Zinfandel vegan
2014 La Grenouille Rougante vegan
2014 Sauvignon blanc vegan
2012 Estate Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon not vegan"

Company email:
"Our wines do not contain any animal products. However, casein (a milk protein) was used in the fining process before fermentation began on our recent vintages of Sauvignon Blanc and our late harvest Riesling. It is important to keep in mind that due to sterile filtration these agents were no longer present when the wine was bottled.

Our current releases of Chardonnay (2007), our Pink (2008) and any of our previous or current vintages of red wines were produced without the
use of animals products during any stage of their production.

I hope that this information is helpful to you for your directory. Each vintage may need to be produced differently, so this information is only
applicable to these vintages. Please feel free to contact me anytime if you have any other questions or if I can be of any assistance to you."