Focus in the Cellar is to Get Oskyfizzante® Pink and Oskyfizzante Cranberry Ready for Bottling Next Week

We racked several wines off yeast lees and got both the Oskyfizzante Pink and Cranberry ready for carbonation. This involves sweetening and filtering both wines. Bottling is done manually, one bottle at a time, with a five-person team. One person rinses each bottle, the second fills the bottle, the third caps the bottle, the fourth wipes down the bottle to remove any overflow that will be sticky when it dries, and the fifth is the material handler bringing in cold bottles from a reefer that is backed up to the crush pad and then putting the filled bottles in cartons to warm up. We label the bottles the next day on our automated labeler. Unfortunately, we can’t use our automated bottling line for the fizzy wines.