Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Bottling the Vieux Chateau Du Roi

Took me forever to bottle this stuff. i was suppose to bottle it on the 26th, but i was lazy that day and i had to go into philly so i could pick up matt the next day. Too busy partying that weekend so the bottling had to wait a little longer. Finally bought bottles on the 1st. Only had to buy one box this time because we have accumulated enough empties to reuse.
While at the wine/beer brew store, we were about to leave and i remember we needed to borrow the floor corker again. Its a pain borrowing the corker because you have to return it the next day, which is a pain. So my dad went ahead and bought one for like 50 bones. Pretty ridiculous if you as me, i tried to talk him out of it but he was pretty set on getting one.
This time i had to do the bottling myself, at least most of it. Turns out its a lot harder by yourself.
To relieve me from worrying about collecting sediment in the bottles, i racked the wine from the 6 gallon carboy to the 3 gallon one. Since i can only rack half of the wine with the small one i had to do it twice, so that made the process a little longer but worth it.
i felt like a little wine robot pulling the tube out and injecting wine in each of the bottles...usually when brent helps me he just hands me one bottle one at a time but since i was by myself i put all the bottles on the tray.
i filled one of the bottles up too much, so i decided to drink the excess to the desired level. It was pretty decent for wine that has not had time to age. Should turn out to be a dry medium bodied red after three months on the bottle.

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