When it comes to the arrangement of machines and stations needed to finally bottle wine, I can’t help thinking of the “Skeleton Dance” song that goes – “The leg bone’s connected to the knee bone. The knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone…”
In short, when the wine is ready to be bottled, it is tested one last time for any errors, pumped from the cellar, through the last and sterile filtration, into the bottling machine, where sterilized bottles are filled, capped, and ready to be labeled and packaged.
In a small winery like where I work, much of this process is still done fairly manually. There is no conveyor belt bringing the bottles from one station to the next – this is done by hand.
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