Saturday, June 26, 2010

Bottling wine

In anticipation of the summer fruits, I bottled our Pomegranate 2007 wine into bottles.  


First, the bottles are soaked in a potassium metabisulfate solution.  (very dilute!) 
The corks are also soaked to soften them. 
The carboy (it's a six gallon glass carboy) is moved to the counter to allow sediment to settle.  
One at a time, wine is siphoned carboy to bottle.  The red thing is the hand corker. 
The job is done quickly.  
Poor light, but one shot for color. 

Planning for a bike ride and perhaps making some plum wine tomorrow.  Summer is finally here!

2 comments:

  1. Wonderful batch of wine you have there. Now I'm wondering if you make mead as well?

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  2. We started a mead last year with our last honey harvest. From a combination of busy schedules and sheer lazyness, we left it in the primary container too long, and when I went to get ready to rack it, fruit flies had already found it. We had to dump the lot. This year, maybe! I'm actually interested in doing some metheglins - especially ginger. Think it would make a lovely dinner appertif.

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