It's in the Bottle - the red wedding wine, that is!

Two down, and two to go! Yesterday Mom and I bottled the two red wines for the weddings . It's a fun part of the process, and you get to at least have a taste for your efforts. And they both tasted great.

First, we siphon the wine off the last small bit of sediment, from the 6 gallon glass carboy to a 6 gallon bucket. That way you don't have to worry at all about accidentally stirring up any sediment and having cloudy wine. This photo shows the carboy and bucket on the wood table, so you have the elevation you need to siphon and bottle.

Then you clean and sanitize all the bottles, put them on the "bottle tree", fill them up, and put in a cork. Voila! Vino tinto! Now our next challenge will be to come up with nice labels for each. In a few weeks we'll start the two white wines, and then they can all age nicely before the summer. What fun!