If you’re going on holiday anywhere near Narbonne, I want to recommend to you a super little restaurant where Jeff Carrel and I had lunch the day I first met him; Le Petit Comptoir (4 Bd Maréchal Joffre – 11100 Narbonne. Tel +33 (0)4 68 42 30 35). Delicious, freshly-prepared food and a great wine [...]

Wine is basically fermented grape juice, so un-interferred-with it is as vegetarian as an apple or a carrot.

However, in order to ensure the resultant wine is bright and clear you sometimes have to resort to fining it in order to clear any protein haze.

Industrial size wines are fined as a matter of course just as [...]