How to Make Wine – Step 5 – Bottling
22 Jun
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Using an automatic bottle filler, the wine is transferred into bottles, leaving enough room for the cork. Finally, with a floor mounted bottle corker, bottles are corked and their appearance dressed up with professionally designed labels and caps. Bottles are left upright for two days to allow air pressure to be released and the cork to fully seat. When you bring your wine home, lay the bottles on their side in a cool room (approximately 50-60 degrees) for the final aging process (at least 3 months for whites and 6 months for reds).
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Not true Mark. You can purchase everything you need to make wine for under one hundred dollars. I know I show some expensive equipment in the video, but thats because I make it commercially. Quite literally, you could make the kit wine entirely using a plastic bucket and nothing else except free bottles you salvage from restaurants. You don’t need anything else except a 6′ section of 1/2″ tube and a cheap corker. No lid(maybe a towel to keep out the bugs), no airlock, no hydrometer, no filters.
Let me invest a few thousand dollars to make a few 10 dollar bottles of wine.
wow i just love that kit – i do mine in the bath !?!
@Uranium718 the chemicals used are about as dangerous as table salt….
Shelf life depends on a few things. The following things extend the shelf life: Tannans in red wine; good closures (corks); sulfites; but most importantly, the temperature and humidity of a room while the bottle is stored on its side. The shelf life may be from a few months to many years considering all these variables. All wines have a cycle involving chemical changes with variations in taste. Predicting that peak in the cycle is sometimes difficult without trial and error and a little luck.
maybe this is a silly question, but what’s the shelf life once bottled?
Past problems with natural cork was the bacteria inside the cork spoiling the wine. That, and the cost of cork is the reason companies have been switching to synthetic corks and screw caps. Wine needs a slow exchange of air over time to help the wine age. The biggest transfer of air is along the cork/glass interface. My concern is that synthetic corks allow air to enter the bottle too quickly. Besides the scientific proof, observe how easy it is to pull a synthetic cork from a bottle.
I see what youre saying and big companies have to protect their investment. I personally belive we put too many chemicals in our foods and drink already. But i guess back in the day, although more natural, they paid the price with alot of bad wine. I think synthetic corks suppose to cut down on bacteria spoiling after theyre corked.
The purpose of Potassium Metabisulfite is to disinfect. It does this by killing bacteria in air that enters the bottle after corking. It also removes chlorine from the rinse water as a side benefit. The reason all wineries use it is to increase the self life during aging. You don’t have to use it, but there is a risk of bacteria spoiling the wine if you don’t.
What makes me cringe here is he washes the bottle with water and disinfectant then adds the wine with all that residual stuff in it. I dont want to add that crap in my wine no matter how safe it is. Wouldn’t it be better to heat the bottles in an oven to sterilize them?
Yeah, that’s the easy way and it works well for wine, though for beer I like to be able to put the tube all the way at the bottom to avoid frothing. Of course, you can just kink the line to do that, but my point was that if convenience important, you can save a whole lot on an automatic bottler with a $2 plastic part.
@gentlestormtoo. i did watch all of the videos. but he started with the red wine but afther filtering it i thought that it changed its color. there was a confusion…
Good idea. Although for anyone without equipment just use the end of your finger to stop the flow before transferring the tube to another bottle.
I may just be saying this because I’ve done a lot of lab work, but I’m absolutely baffled that people don’t just get a cheap stopcock for the bottling process.
@kalo961
you mean you have not watched the other 4 videos. I did. He started with red wine. This is the only step he uses white. Color makes no differents on how you make wine. The basic steps are the same.
The color of the juice gives the wine. It don’t matter what juice you start with either. I.e. carrot, kiwi, watermelon. oh ya red grapes.
Had you really watched the other 4 steps would have known this.
argeed, i dont have all this fancy stuff, nor the money :/
@gentlestormtoo wow im guessing you just saw this last video. it says step 5 that means there were 4 more steps befor bottling the wine… he made the wine from juce, if you cant answer a queston dont even try.. and my question had nothing to do with bottling…
The color of the wine makes no differents on how you bottle one. kalo961 if I showed you how to put on a red hat, do I need to show you how to but a white one on? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB
that was white wine.. but how do u make red wine… cuz i dont like white wine
nice and no nonsense video series, thanks a lot. very informative.even for beginners.
Let me take the mystery out of winemaking. If you sprinkle appropriate yeast onto the juice in a clean bucket, it will make wine. You don’t need anything besides yeast and sweet juice. The yeast eats the sugar and makes alcohol. Temperature (65-70 degrees) and clean equipment are important. When it stops fermenting( 1-3 months), you have wine. Siphon the wine into bottles, cork and age. No need to filter. It’s that simple.
We sell a wine making kit for $95. It has the primary bucket; 6 gallon glass carboy; siphon; bottling tube and check valve; hand corker; corks. The only thing you need to make wine are the juice and bottles. You don’t need all that expensive equipment.
Excellent instructional series. Thanks. I wish there were more tips for those of us who are just getting started and not using such fancy equipment. I find it doubtful that ancient greek wine makers has an electric bottle filler or filtering device
Great videos either way though.
Im sure this way of making wine is fine, but at the same time he is doing it the complex way
andy, could you recommend any starter kits that include most of the equipment you demonstrated? (IE: bottler, pumps, filtering equipment etc) and how much to get started on average? very informative videos, thanks alot! (my hometown winery is the Thomas Family Winery in Madison Indiana!)