The rewards and frustrations of home winemaking

Bottling Party

bottling party

Our friend invited us over to โ€œhelpโ€ him bottle his 2 barrels of wine.ย  We spent most of the time drinking barrel samples, the bottling went pretty quickly.ย  We did have a problem at the end where the corks were coming back out of the bottles.ย  Iโ€™m still not sure why this started happening, but we were using the same SO2 solution to pour over the corks throughout the day, and maybe it just got slick at the end.ย  After we changed the water it seemed to be OK, so we finished up and celebrated with some grilled fish tacos, and more wine.