Filling Wine Bottles At Home

Bottling home made wine.

Filling wine bottles at home.

Choosing the right wine bottle. Wine bottle fillers are for sale online at adventures in homebrewing. Start off by sterilising and rinsing them and then syphon the finished wine into the bottles leaving enough room for the cork and a tiny bit extra. Simplify bottling day with a new wine bottle filler.

Dark glass is always best because light will damage wine given time. So when selecting your wine bottles you want to make sure they have a cork finish with the standard 3 4 inch opening. Fill the bottle until approximately 2 5 3cm 1in from where the cork will sit. In other words they need to be wine bottles that are designed to take a cork.

Not all bottles were meant to be corked. Wine will fill the bottle. The spring tip bottle filler needs to be pressed to the bottom of the bottle for the wine to fill the bottle. A hose clamp will help here for the siphoning and fitting of bottle filler.

Fill to the very brim and then lift up. The goal when filling aside from the obvious is to prevent oxidation. Sink the bottle filler to the bottom of the bottle and let wine fill up the bottle with minimum aeration. Push the bottle filler into the bottom of the bottle.

At last it s time to bottle your wine. Bottles should be filled without splashing to about one fourth to one half inch below the point where the bottom of the cork will be. When we talk about corking wines we have to start with the bottle. This stops the wine from splashing and oxidizing.

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