If you want to try making your own wine – start saving your bottles now.  Why buy bottles when you can just reuse them!  First stage of bottling was to wash the bottles – all 30 of them.

Then time to sanitize them.  Throughout the process of making wine it was always necessary to sanitize everything.  We had Maurene’s mudroom sink full of sanitized water at every step.

This is Maurene’s bottle tree.  This thing was very cool.  Just load them up to drip dry.

These will sit overnight and then corking tomorrow!!