If you've ever wondered how wine gets from barrel to bottle, I took some video that I thought I'd share with you (it's a bit shaky, so if you get motion sickness, this is your warning!). After our winemaker determines the wine is ready to be bottled, the wine is transferred from the barrels it was aging in to a tank which connects to the bottling line. We don't have a permanent bottling line on property, so we bring in a portable bottling line to bottle all of our wines.
It's pretty neat - everything is self contained in a large trailer that gets dropped of by a semi truck. This week we're finishing up bottling of our 2007 Cab, and each day as I arrive to work I hear the familiar "clink clink" of the bottles moving through the line as they're filled with wine, corked, foiled, labeled, and boxed up.
Check out the video and post a comment to let me know what you think!
