Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Bottle Overload

So we are preparing for bottling and we got out shipment of bottles. Little did I know it would be such an overwhelming amount of bottles!

That stack of bottles goes about 5 deep and 3 wide! We received four different types of bottles the 65, 10, 13, and 22. Since those numbers mean nothing to me, lets delve a little deeper....
 

The 65's (far left) are used for our standard red wine bottle and the 2008 Consensus will be bottled in it. They are Bordeaux bottles. 

The 10's (2nd in line) are our standard white wine bottles, called Burgundy bottles. We will be bottling both the Les Vents de Anges Viognier and the Verdejo in them. Both the Burgundy and the Bordeaux bottles are dark green (technically called antique green and dead leaf green). The reasoning behind this is the darker the bottle the less sunlight can come in contact with the wine, which means less oxidation.

The 22's (3rd) are smaller dessert wine bottles, which we will be using for the Royal (the late harvest Norton). The bottle holds half the volume of the other bottles and is called a Belissima bottle. These bottles are taller then the previous two!

Last but not least is a bottle I am unfamiliar with, the 13 (far right). The 13's will be used to bottle our Rose. This is called a Hock bottle. The bottle virtually does not have a punt, while all the other bottles we are using do! A punt is the little indent on the bottom of a bottle. This bottle does not have a punt because wines that tend to be bottled in them do not have sediment.

Overall, we received 20,580 bottles in our shipment!

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