What You Don't Know About Bottling Wine

Bottling wine is a very time-consuming and tedious task, and maintaining the quality of the wine during and after the bottling process is one of the most important priorities to winemakers. The goal is to protect the wine from oxidation as much as possible. Since bottling is the last phase of the winemaking process,

one mistake can ruin an entire tank of wine, wasting months and even years of hard work. To help eliminate some of the stress, we hire an outside bottling company to bottle our wines.

The first step is transferring our wine from our tanks to the bottling truck's resevoir.

Next, we fill the bottles with a small amount of nitrogen gas to avoid any oxidation. Immediately followed by filling those bottles with wine from the truck's reservoir. Once filled,the bottles are corked by an automatic corking machine. After the bottles are corked, they're then capped and labeled, and ready to be sealed.

Finally, the bottles are packaged until they're ready to be sold. We are expecting the Tramonto to be ready any day now, and our Seyval Blanc is already available online and in our restaurant!