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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/

 

 

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My new sparkling chapter

Time passed and Germany got me back. (I’ll return, France! Brace yourself!)

Now I’m working in a sparkling wine cellar near my hometown. The “Sektkellerei Höfer” in Würzburg.  I’ll stay there for four months and during this period I’ll tell you a lot about sparkling wine, show you some photos and even videos!!!

Enjoy!

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Violence in the vineyard

Let me take you on a dream journey.

Imagine: You walk through the vineyards. The intense green of the leaves is slowly changing in a golden orange. Autumn is coming. Harvest is over. The mist covers the landscape softly like a blanket. Everything is calm.

But then, you see it: Horribly rotten, withered and dead. A grapevine, which is hopelessly afflicted by ESCA*!

You instantly take your scissors and start to cut it all off, violently. Until nothing rests but the root. At the end you also tear out the root. No mercy!

At the end you contemplate your work: Well done!

You continue your walk. Peaceful and calm.

 

*Esca- a collection of mushrooms, which besets the vines root. A lethal illness for a grapevine. All that rests is a brown dried and dead piece of wood.