Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Bottling a Barrique of Claret

I saw the manual bottling of a barrique of claret at the end of the Wine and Dine Festival this year - when I say the end, I lterally mean the end, it was at the exit point that I saw the vigneron valliantly struggle to put all the content of the barrel the array of empty bottles he had also brought along. He was using a manual syphon to bottle, and that brought back memories of me bottling the contents of a demijohn during my forays into home winemaking. After the bottling, the corking was done manually, with a machine machine that is an industrial version of what I had used before. After that the bottle tops were dipped in wax to seal it. Then the labels were manually stuck on.

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