How Wine is Made

Finally, the bottling phase of winemaking - the end is in sight! Bottling wines today is done through mechanical bottling lines. Smaller wineries might rent bottling rigs that can be tranported to the winery for the season, while the larger estates have their bottle lines onsite. As far as the actual process, the wine bottle is slowly filled and topped with either nitrogen or carbon dioxide to displace any oxygen that might be lingering on top of the fill line. The bottle is then capped with either a traditional cork or a modern screw cap, depending on the winery's traditions and philosophies. Next the bottles have their unique feature labels slapped on and away they go for either further bottle aging or straight to the case for distribution.