Growing the grapes, then making the wine and finally bottling the wine is the last of a long line of tasks that has to be done before you can enjoy what you have accomplished.Bottling the wine has to be done correctly because bad hygiene can spoil the wine.Let´s look a little closer at the wine bottling procedure in these blog posts.
It’s a rather simple procedure as I mentioned in a previous post below. Here are a few photos to show how it’s done.
BlueStem Winery: Bottling Your Homemade Wine
Make sure that you wash your bottles thoroughly with dish soap and water, rinse and then use a sanitizer (see previous blog article titled Winemaking 101 for procedure) to give your bottles a final rinse. … Corks, too, need to be sterilized prior to bottling your wine. Again there are several ways to sterilize corks. First, you can use a teaspoon of sulphite powder (potassium or sodium metabisulphite) in hot water and soak your corks in this solution. …
