Nobody Puts Rebel Girl in a Bottle!

Gretchen Neuman
VinoVerve Editor

Yes, I know that title is some strange cross between I Dream of Jeannie and Dirty Dancing. It is hard out here for a hobo. Or at least that is what Kevin and I keep telling Aunt Maggie and whoever else out there is reading about our foray into home winemaking. Maybe someday I will have the revenuers knocking at my door. But they will never take me alive, I tell you! Yee Ha! or what ever it is that hobos say when they are bottling their wine.

Can you believe that I haven’t even had any of it today? Well tough. I didn’t.

What I did have was our clean sterile bottles and corks… we had the clean sterile tubing and the wine siphon. Oh. And we had three empty bags from boxes of Angel Juice Pinot Grigio. Yes, in true hobo form, we are bottling our wine in bags… I learned how to do it here at Instructables (contrary to their opinion not ALL bags from boxed wine are suitable for re-use. Yes, there was some experimentation involved. And you people don’t think that we suffer for our art!).

The hope is that we can serve it from a carafe like semi-civilized people… Or, if the evening is late enough we can dribble the remnants of the bag into our mouths from the spigot.

This process was pretty simple once we figured out how to clamp the spigots back onto the bags… and got Kevin to watch what he was doing as he was filling the bottles… Let’s just say that there was some spillage involved.

Next up? Corking. Easy enough for a 12 year old to accomplish…

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