The combination of sophisticated electronics and the purely mechanical — levers and wheels — can be mesmerizing. Before bottling begins everything that comes into contact with wine is sterilized — hose, pumps, valves — everything. Steam is run through for at least 20 minutes. Corks are received sterilized in sealed plastic bags. The air in the bottling room is filtered.
This video shows the entire process — the bottles enter the bottling room, they are vacuum cleaned, filled with an inert gas to remove oxygen, filled with wine, then the fill is levelled, corked, a capsule is then put on the bottle, the capsule is spun to make it fit tightly on the bottle, the bottle is labelled, packed and stored. All this at 60 bottles per minute.
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