Before we arrived, the staff at Water 2 Wine had created our labels from the pictures I had emailed to them. They then printed them out onto the peel & stick label sheets.

We brought along some nice cheeses and crackers to snack while we sampled our wine.
The first step was to rinse out the bottles with water and then with sulfites and place them on the “tree” to drain.
Next, we used their bottle filler. A single bottle is placed on the pad and raised up to the nipple, which is attached both to a hose leading from the fermenting bottle, and to an overflow hose leading into another of our bottles. The bottle filler is a simple automated machine, which is adjusted to fill each bottle to about the appropriate level…with a little tweaking.
Once the wine is in the bottle, its on to the corker.

That was the best part!
We then moved on to the final steps. We chose foils to coordinate with our labels and placed them over the corked bottle tops.
We used their melting coils to “shrink wrap” the foils down onto each bottle by placing the bottle in the cradle and sliding the bottleneck up into the hot coil for 2 seconds to melt the foil.
We placed the label on each bottle and we were done!

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