Basic Instructions for Home Winemaking
Bottling

Siphon the wine off, leaving the sediment behind.

Filter your wine, if desired. You can use filter paper, or leave the wine in its natural state.

Bottling the wine can be done with a variety of equipment items to help make this easier. A "bottling wand" is very useful here - it's a piece of rigid tube with a spring-loaded valve at the bottom. Push on the end and wine flows. Stop pushing and it stops flowing.

There are many styles of corkers. Corkers come in four types: The "bang-it-in" kind, the tunnel kind, the lever kind (where the tunnel is actually part of a plier-like arrangement, compressing the cork), and floor corkers.

For corks, you can also get real cork covered with teflon, agglomerate corks (with or without teflon), or pressed cork dust covered with teflon. Note when choosing bottles that bottles with the drip ring top don't cork very well.

Label your creation, and set it aside for a time, trying it at various stages along its aging cycle!

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