… why, continue Merry Making!!! It was time to bottle the wine and port, and start a new kit – another Pinot Grigio kit!
The wine and port were re-racked and filtered before bottling. Here, Brian is filtering the wine …
The wine’s all bottled up …
The port had a couple additions after filtering … a bottle of Metaxa was added, as well as the Essence Bag from the kit (a syrupy, sweet, port flavoring).
We decided to go with bottles for the port this time. We bought 375 ml Bordeaux bottles, and after we filled all 30, we had enough port left for 3 x 500 ml mason jars. We corked the bottles (left) and put on shrink sleeves (right) …
And then we named and labeled them!!
Long Shadow Port! …
And Blue Moon Montepulciano! …
Both require a minimum of 4 months of aging, but taste-testing while bottling indicates both are a HIT!!!