Before harvest, let’s bottle some wine…

September 2, 2019

Written by Ken Wornick

Backed by 20+ vintages and many dozens of wines produced, Ken is a Sonoma-based wine consultant and founder of Sonocaia Estate Vineyeards, Dysfunctional Family Winery and Hydeout Sonoma.
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As the clock clicks down to another harvest, it’s time to make some room in the winery. Here are a series of short videos and time lapses of our most recent bottling of Dysfunctional Family 2017 “Red Blend”. 

Starting with some barrels full of the wine:

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Seven short bottling videos to view in sequence:

conveying clean bottles and flushing with inert gas

filling bottles with the red blend

put a cork in it!

add a nice matte black capsule

apply labels to bottles

bottling is complete

time lapse of the bottling line

time lapse viewed from a catwalk above the bottling line

Federal law requires that we check the fill level to assure every bottle meets/exceeds 750ml. This device assures that level of accuracy.

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The first case off the line of 2017 Dysfunctional Family Winery “Red Blend”

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The 2017 Dysfunctional Family Red Blend labels:

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Hillside Cabernet vineyard on Sonoma Mountain waiting to harvest, brix as of September 2nd were around 18 (+/- 1.5) heading toward 24-26.

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Squeezing in the annual ‘trimming of the palms’ before harvest…

chainsaw trimming the Canary palm

Canary palm all cleaned up, with the Hydeout Sagrantino ripening in the background…

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Event: Sonoma International Film Festival ‘outdoor movie event’ at the Hydeout

Friday, September 20th, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense

Buy tickets to 9/20 showing of “Stop Making Sense” at the Hydeout

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2 Comments

  1. Tim P. Ryan

    Wondering if I could get some of your Onitnargas wine?

    Reply
  2. Gary Hultquist

    Wonderful update and images!
    I am returning to Sonoma on 12th thru 16th. Hoping this year, Hydeout will call me to help with Harvest!

    Reply

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