Bottling and Corking Wine

[At Left, Anton filling a bottle of wine with 2005 "Bordeaux"]

[At Right, Clone Rob and Apron Boy

then cork the filled bottle]

As requested in a prior post, more on the wine filler. We do have video of this, but it's currently on private view in youtube because, as usual, the production possibly suffers too much from bloopable innuendo and double-entendres. Oh well, if we vote to release it, it will be released - check back.

Racked the Top-Up Wine.

First task yesterday was to decant the wine in the demijons into empty demijons, leaving the lees behind and giving it an airing. We missed the full moon, I know, but hope the new moon did something

We've had a lot of queries from search engines on lees and sur lees, but we forgot to take a picture of the lees in the demijons so those searching for them could get an idea what they are. In our process the lees serve as a natural anti-oxidant - any ladies want some as a natural face-pack?

As we racked the wine we tasted. All was A.O.K.

Topped Up the Barrels.

We also took the racked wine and topped up our barrels of wine to eliminate headspace. Again, some tasting and stirring and smelling. The wine is progressing nicely.

Broke into another private stash.

We bottled another lot of 2005 "Bordeaux" with our incredibly efficient, not-a-drop-is-spilled wine filler. We still are not filtering, relying on natural sedimentation to do the job naturally.

Michael.

He's back from some place with "hole" in its name, somewhere out west. Apparently our resident feats-of-strength-I-may-have-a-thing-for-Carmen Miranda-fruit-headwear man got himself into a bit of bother with a kayak and a raging two foot deep torrent of water. Nature IS very deceptive. But a big "THANKYOU" to Shep who risked all to save him.