Month: January 2017

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A Self-Experiment: Red Wine Tea

Winter. Everyone’s got a cold. So do I.

To get well again a good friend of mine recommended me a very strange-sounding recipe: Red Wine Tea. Drink it, she said and you’ll get better soon. So I tried it:  

  • 1/2 bottle of red wine
  • 0,25 l  water
  • 2 tea bags of black tea
  • 2 lemons
  • a huge amount of sugar

I heated up the red wine, made a strong black tea (Earl Grey), poured it together and added lemon juice and sugar until it was tasty.

I’m just drinking it right now, so I will report about the healing effect in some days! Here my advice: Drink it as hot as you can! The colder it gets the worse it tastes.

Report: It made me drunken and heated me up! Perfect to destroy bacteria, isn’t it?

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From the bottle of my heart – Bottling

Have you ever wondered how the beverage gets into the bottle? I made some short videos to show you how bottling does work!

First of all the bottles get washed:

Then they get filled. The bottling machine is connected to a tank, from which the liquid is pumped to the machine.
Here they get filled under pressure so that the CO2 can’t escape from the sparkling wine.

And finally, because we have sparkling wine, the bottle gets corked (first station)and the cork gets fixed with an agraffe (second station).

Now we have a beautiful fresh bottled sparkling wine.

This is the bottling process of a sparkling wine which is not traditional bottle fermented. If you want to read more about traditional bottle fermentation, click on the following link:

http://www.naturetoculture.com/sparkling-wine-how-come/