This week for Out of the Barrel we are going to go behind the scenes and take a closer look at this process. It takes a village to run a vineyard and bottling day is just one of the many pieces of the puzzle.
We have partnered with a company who brings in a complete bottling operation on a semi truck a few times a year when we have large amounts of wine to bottle. Our most recent bottling was of 7 different wines that totaled to over 1,600 cases! With 12 bottles to a case, needless to say it was quite a long day. However, with the truck being as loud as it is while everything is in motion, and for the stretches of time with each amount of bottling, you get to jam out to your favorite music or catch up on your most podcast binge.
We have partnered with a company who brings in a complete bottling operation on a semi truck a few times a year when we have large amounts of wine to bottle. Our most recent bottling was of 7 different wines that totaled to over 1,600 cases! With 12 bottles to a case, needless to say it was quite a long day. However, with the truck being as loud as it is while everything is in motion, and for the stretches of time with each amount of bottling, you get to jam out to your favorite music or catch up on your most podcast binge.
The work isn’t glamorous by any means. Almost everyone who is at their station is doing a fast paced, constant and repetitive motion for long stretches of time. No need to get a workout in on bottling day depending on the station you are at! You get quite the workout whether it be by dumping the empty bottles on the conveyor belt, filling the cases with wine once they are filled, corked and labeled or stacking the full cases on the palate. For the time I was there, another Bluestone employee and I were helping to fill the cases with wine bottles to send down and be stacked on the palate.
Bottling day is one of the many parts of the vineyard that gives you more of an appreciation for how the wine got from the aging vessel to the bottle and all the little odds and ends that happen in between to get the wine ready for sale either in the tasting room or distribution.
For more of a glimpse of bottling day, check out the video above that our Marketing Coordinator, Emily, put together. It is quite the setup and is rather neat to see, especially from her point of view where she was able to go into the back side of the bottling truck and get a close up of the bottles in the various stages of the process.
Thanks for tuning in for this week’s edition of Out of the Barrel! Cheers!
Bottling day is one of the many parts of the vineyard that gives you more of an appreciation for how the wine got from the aging vessel to the bottle and all the little odds and ends that happen in between to get the wine ready for sale either in the tasting room or distribution.
For more of a glimpse of bottling day, check out the video above that our Marketing Coordinator, Emily, put together. It is quite the setup and is rather neat to see, especially from her point of view where she was able to go into the back side of the bottling truck and get a close up of the bottles in the various stages of the process.
Thanks for tuning in for this week’s edition of Out of the Barrel! Cheers!
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