A wine bottle is a bottle which is used to hold wine, and which is generally made out of glass. Some wine bottles are also used during the wine fermentation process, although for the most part the wine is only put into a wine bottle after the entire wine making process is complete.

Wine bottles are available in a large variety of sizes and styles, and they are typically sealed with a cork, although screw-top caps have become especially popular recently. When you purchase wine from a store you will just get it in whatever wine bottle it is offered to you in, however if you bottle your own wine, then you are able to choose whatever sort of bottle you like.

Bottling Your own Wine

As long as your wine as been fermented and racked, meaning that it is cleared of sediment, then you are able to put it into a wine bottle and store it. The first step is to choose the actual wine bottle that you are going to use, and then if is new and unused, you just need to rinse it with hot water and dry it.

You want to prepare the corks by soaking them in water for a couple of hours, and then rinsing them off with cool water and letting them stand to dry. You then want to place the bottles below the wine container, insert the notched end of the siphon tube into the container of wine, making sure that the tube is not touching the bottom of the container.

Then you need to suck on the other end of the tube until the wine begins to flow through it, and then insert the tube into the wine bottle. You want to fill the bottle up until it is about ? of an inch below the bottom of the cork. Then you can use a corking machine to insert the corks into the bottles, and if you do not have one of these machines you do have the option of renting one from any wine making supply shop.

There are certain things that you want to keep in mind when you are bottling your own wine, such as the fact that you are going to want to practice filling the bottles with water before you try siphoning the wine, in case it takes you a little while to get the hang of it and so you won’t end up wasting any of your wine.

You also want to allow the sediment to settle before bottling if you ever have to move a container of the wine, for the best results.