Bottled!
We started at 8 AM. Cleaned for an hour, and we were bottling by 9AM.
We first bottled the 30 gallon 2011 Syrah, then the 60 gallon 2011 Zin.
We finished bottling at 3:30, and cleanup took until 5PM.
Long day!
Some learnings:
- The bottles should be a lighter color so that we can see the wine level as we are filling.
- Buy a better quality cork than BevPeople is selling. We had some recorking to do because the corks would break down.
- When corking, pull down the handle partway twice, pre-compressing the cork. Then cork it in the third pull