One of these things is not like the other!

I had the pleasure of golfing with the Dix brothers over the weekend and they are very much a shoe in for the 2010 version on the tv show the ODD Couple!



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Bottling Day

Almost one year ago Lori and I had begun the process to make wine for real and you may remember that post on on this blog, if you want to revisit it click here. Fast forward to Sept. and we were ready to bottle #240 bottles of wine. We could not have done the bottling alone as there was a fair amount of work involved. Our wine was transferred and filtered from the barrel it slept in the prior year to a stainless steel holding tank to await the bottling process.

First, the stainless steel tank was hoisted up high and the next step was to fill the bottles by way of gravity.

Then they were corked and RTB our heat sink master double fisted the wine bottles and heated the tin foil caps on
From here they passed down to get their labels



Once the labels were spun on we had our finished product and Tom's special bottle Notice his great attention to detail!

That is it, except we had to repeat that process a total of #240 times and once the tank was emptied we ventured over to our table to enjoy some food and great wine!

The entire bottling process took just about one hour however, taste testing the other wines available and enjoying the food we made an afternoon of it.

All in all we had a fabulous time and really appreciated everyone who helped us bottle and moved the wine! Now, the hard part is allowing the wine some additional time to age in the bottle before we drink any of it. Optimally the wine should "bottle age" anywhere from a few months to a few years to enhance and further develop its unique flavor. Here is a little explanation regarding aging of wine.

Video of Newton Pub

They opened up the Whitehorse Pike around 11am and I drove down to take a look at the diner. Here is what I saw!

Newton Pub engulfed in flames

At sometime after 5 am this morning we were awakened to the  two alarm fire sirens and then the hovering noise of a news helicopter seen in the video.  Currently they have the entire whitehorse pike closed down for the fire trucks. Unfortunately, this is our go to diner, bummer.