Finally got round to bottling my wine today. Made from a vineyard in Surrey, I ended up with 40 bottles of white and 66 of red. It's the red I'm most excited about. Both were made quite naturally, with no sulphur dioxide added until after malolactic, and the red has withstood the rather oxidative winemaking style a bit better. The red is a blend of Regent and Dornfelder, harvested ripe...

... shows that ML is done in that wine. Time to rack, sulfur and put that one to bed until bottling ... with a final, minor hit of SO2 but failed to do so before bottling day because of general life complications...

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We bottled 88 cases of 2005 Zinlady today in about four hours. There’s the diff right there between a bottling service and hand bottling - we did 850 cases in less than four hours on April 17...

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February marks the start of the bottling season here at Sokol Blosser! Right now, we're bottling ... bottling our Pinot Noir . Bottling in the cold has it's interesting challenges... not only do your ... updated on bottling techniques as the weeks pass... until then, stay warm, and cheers! Our Winery ... . A peek into the mobile bottling line. A finished pallet... 1 pallet = 56 cases = 672...

Today, 13 guests from Calistoga Ranch came over for a "lesson" in bottling! They cam from as far as Chicago and Philadelphia and as close as San Francisco, but they all had one thing in common - they like wine! We began with a short tour of the winery and vineyard while Chef Becca Goldfarb (our ... Then the bottling, corking and labelling begins! It can be messy! A wonderful day...

Good news from over here at the cellar. We bottle on the 4th and 5th. All the glass arrived unharmed. Quite a long trip down from Canada. And luckily the driver was a good sport. We're still doing some work on the driveway here at Page Springs Cellars.

A Savoury Gamay Being Filled into Unlikely Containers...October in the Loire.There are times when, being cash-strapped, you got to find new, inventive ways to purchase good-quality wine, especially for your daily needs, and buying wine in bulk ("vin en vrac"...

? Go read the January through April portions of the 2006 blog. Last year’s bottling was hell on earth ... ’s bottling for March 1, 2008. Our thanks to Harry and Frank and Mobile Wine Line...