We finish cleaning and sterilizing all the bottles and the press. These are Italian carboys, which Rachel reckons hold about 57 litres.
We're not sure exactly how much wine we'll get, so a few smaller bottles and damigiani are sterilized aswell.
Start to get paranoid about cleanliness. Rachel's already had an anxiety dream about the wine going bad!
The carboy, looks, like a 54 litre one - hopefully complete with it's plastic basket/cover. They, along with stoppers, bungs, corks, both drilled for airlocks and undrilled, are available from http://www.brouwland.com/en/ in Belgium (still takes about a fortnight for small parcels to get to the UK though.....)
ReplyDeleteOh, and when full, are very, very heavy. It's probably sensible to get some sort of pump for transfer of liquid/racking etc as the carboys aren't very strong and don't take much of a knock to break/damage. I forecast much swearing if you do manage to break one.....