Tag Archives: bottling

CLEANLINESS.WINELINESS.

Posted on January 16, 2012 by waywardwine

It’s time. Real wineries have machines that sterilize, fill, cap, and label hundreds bottles in seconds…those lucky (rich) bastards. My advice, just buy wine, because making it will ruin you. Round two…bubbly: Tune in next week for the final bottling … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY, Uncategorized | Tagged bottling, Cleanliness, Food, home winemaking, wine | 1 Comment

CORKING.ABOUT

Posted on February 28, 2011 by waywardwine

Midnight nears. I have not packed for our trip. My wine rests in thirty bottles but they need closure, literally and figuratively. Because I saved bottles, this vignoles venture will not see me experimenting with screw-caps. Although, I really really … Continue reading →

Posted in OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY, VIGNOLES VENTURING | Tagged achilles, bottle, bottling, Chiron, eleveur, Finger Lakes, grapes, home winemaking, Recreation, Screw cap, vacation, vignoles, wine, Wine bottle | 2 Comments

BLUEBERRY.BOUND

Posted on September 7, 2010 by waywardwine

A week ago I added Sparkolloid Powder to my blueberry wine must. This blend of crab-friendly clay and polysaccharides sunk the floating yeasts and blueberry bits by positively charging them. Now three inches of detritus and less than a gallon … Continue reading →

Posted in BLUEBERRY BOUND: CRAFTING MY SECOND WINE (AUGUST 2010) | Tagged alcohol, blueberry, blueberry wine, bottle, bottling, chaptalization, drinking, fermentation, filtering, fining, grapes, haze, must, sediment, splits, wine, winemaking | 1 Comment

MYTHMENDING.ENDING

Posted on March 9, 2010 by waywardwine

The final battle nears. Since late January, I have coerced grape juice into wine. Yet if I don’t begin bottling, it all risks ruin. Pumping oxygen out has carried my wine through weeks of racking. Now I must use the … Continue reading →