Choosing The Best Bottles For Wine Making

 

Let’s talk about bottles to put your superb batch of wine into.  There are a variety of different types of wine making bottles.  There is a 750 ml standard bottle that has an 18.5 mm neck.  Ice wine bottles are normally tall and slender and only carry enough wine for two glasses.  Smaller wine bottles are used for wine, vinegar, and mead.  It is a 13.6 ounce size and large wine bottles hold two whole bottles of wine—this uses the same size cork as a standard wine bottle.

When making wine at home, you can get totally burnt out trying to get good quality bottles in a variety of nice colors.  You can visit a store that carries wine making supplies and purchase your bottles but they are lacking in bottle types—generally these stores carry a flat-bottomed wine bottle.  What you need to do is go online for your search for wine making bottles.  Online stores usually offer a decent variety of shapes and colors.  Normally, these bottles are somewhat expensive—around $1.00 for each bottle (standard).  Some specially designed wine bottles are priced around $2.50 per bottle.  You will have to take a little time to choose just the right wine bottle to set off the unique wine you made.  This is especially true if it’s your first time making wine.

There is a wide array of unique neck seals and one of a kind labels designed just to suit your taste.  Choosing labels, colors, and designs will cause your bottle to be noticed by your friends or whomever you wish to impress.  You can choose whatever color bottle makes your wine look more appealing to the eye.  As strange as it sounds, the eye tastes the wine before the tongue and lips do.  The look of your wine making bottles speak to the mind first.

Note that color bottles are translucent and eliminate a great deal of light getting in to our wine.  This makes a difference because overexposure light encourages oxidation.  The smart way to do it is to store your wine in a dark room or area of the room.  You can use clear bottles in a dark storage area (such as a cellar).  But clear bottles are not as unique and tasteful.  If your wine must be stored in a bright area, then choose dark-colored wine making bottles.  Now, the neck of the bottle will have a particular color.  When choosing a label for your bottles, the same color should be somewhere on the label.  This makes the bottle decorative and pretty.  If your wine bottle is clear, the label should match your wine color.

If you are only making and bottling this wine to use for yourself, it may not be as important what kind of bottle or color of label you use.  But if you are giving it to someone else and want to make a good impression, decorate your bottle and be proud of your wine and your bottles. You can give them to your family, friends, or boss for a thoughtful gift for any occasion.  If it’s for your boss, who knows…it might just get you a promotion.