Here is our finished product!
When I started my blog in March this year we were busy harvesting grapes to make wine. Today we finally bottled and corked our wine, we also made labels for it and our children have been involved throughout the process, learning about fermentation etc.. It has been a great learning experience for everyone in our family. We have decided to make wine again next March and it will be a family tradition that we will all look forward to each year.
Here are some more photos of the decantering and corking process.
This is the corking device, we had to soak our corks in boiling water to soften them for a few minutes, then a thin piece of gut is inserted into the bottle neck before the cork goes into the bottle, the cork is then pushed into the bottle and once it is in, the gut is pulled out and this allows for trapped air to be released.
Today we bottled twenty bottles of wine and we still have enough wine for about twenty more, it tastes really great and we are quite impressed with it. It will have to stand upright for a few days and then we will lie it on its side so that the corks will not dry out and they will constantly be in contact with the wine which is important. We even made our own labels.
Have a great week ahead…..
The bottles, labels, and color of the wine are absolutely gorgeous. Will you bottle the rest of your wine? I wondered if you ran out of bottles or…..?
I also didn’t know how much was involved in the bottling process. How come the cork should stay in contact with the wine?
Very beautiful, and nice your children could be involved!
Hi Tammy,
Thanks so much.
We did run out of bottles and I will need to get more today and sterilise them otherwise the wine will go off.
The cork needs to stay moist or it can dry out and shrink and this would allow air into the bottle.
Blessings…
Well, well, I can see many little glasses of that popping up at our knitting club day. looks lovely Linds.
Suez
Hi Linds
It looks so pretty! What does the label say? Did you design it?
xx
Thanks Sue and Carle’
Yip those knitting club days LOL…
The Wine label says Private Reserve for the Dawkins Family Garagiste, 2008 Semi Sweet White Wine. Yes we designed it.
The labels look so professional! Beats scribbled labels anyday ;0)