Wine Bottling

Although it was ready for this step a month or two ago, I hadn't had time to get round to it. However, today I have: the blackberry, and blackberry & elderberry wines I made last autumn are now bottled. Straightforward process of syphoning the wine from the demi-johns into 75 cl bottles, and corking: minimal spillage, and I now have six bottles of the former, and four of the latter.

While I had all the kit out, I also racked the elderflower wine I made in July. It has an excellent bouquet (very elderflowery), a good vinous taste, and is also very dry. Possibly too dry, but we'll see. That, at least, is relatively easy to correct, and I was aware when making it that it was a dry recipe.