Bottling

Bottling is (obviously) the act of putting a wine in its bottle.

The process is slightly violent for a wine and therefore requests the highest attention. As soon as the winemaker finds its wine ready, he will have to successively bottle it, extract the remaining oxygen (and replace it with a gas) and pull down the cork. Then the bottle will be stored upright allowing the cork to stick the glass. Finally, the wine has to be stored horizontally for about a month before being sold.

Did you know Italians were the firsts to use bottles of glass to serve wine? Later in Champagne, France, (1724, officialised in 1728 by royal decree) winemakers used bottles made out of glass to transport their grey wine and experiment sparkling wines.

Originally round, bottles of wines were slowly shaped to be mostly known under the form we are used to see today. Only 3 forms from Burgundy, Alsace and Bordelais are widely used in the industry today.

ENGLISH: BOTTLING