Mosti Mondiale First Kit - MM VN Pinot Noir

[Joanie]

Phew! I was afraid you drank all those yourself!

Nice haul!

AND!!! You have a stationary tub! I'm so jealous! I want a deep sink!

 

[Jeff H]

Joan,


After I posted that picture, I thought the same thing, "they're gonna think I'm amajordrunk"- how funny! I found that my basement was plumbed for the sink, so I installed it last week before I got started. It is nice to have it so close.

 

[Jeff H]

Wade,


I just came back from the same place and got another 15 bottles. They said they will keep savingthem for me...Yippee! I'm been thinking about the fermenting possibilities with the tanks but then those fishes pee where they swim - yuck

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[geocorn]

Good score on the wine bottles. I preach how easy it is to find wine bottles, but I still sell 200-300 cases of new bottles per month.

Not that I am complaing, but if you think about it, not buying 5 cases of bottles will give you enough money to buy a 10 liter wine kit. I personally think the wine kit is a better value.

 

[Jeff H]

Thanks George! I've got around 5 cases now. It's a rathereclectic mix of styles, sizes and colors. I never realized how many different configurations of bottles are possible. But you make a good point about the relative cost and at this time I'm just starting so what does it matter if the bottles vary some. I'd rather save my $'s for the next kit. Edited by: Jeff H

 

[Wade E]

Keep saving them and you will gather enough to do whole batches in 1 style bottle. My first few wines were all over the place with types of bottles, then I was able to do same kind with a few different colors mixed in. Now I have no trouble doing batches with all the same and i have a few oddballs that wil eventually make up a batch like the cobalt blue bottles. I have 22 of those now.

 

[Jack on Rainy]

That's why my icon title says "newbie",

I'm sure I'll correct that in the near future...oh damn - I best get my fish equipment on ebay before this gets out of control

Too Late Jeff, you are already hooked! Welcome to the forum.

 

[Joanie]

I agree, Jack!

Jeff, you are hooked! I can read it in your posts. =) Welcome to the "club"!

You plumb too? Be still my

!

Edited by: Joan

 

[Coaster]

I preach how easy it is to find wine bottles, but I still sell 200-300 cases of new bottles per month.

I agree George, mostly

. I have a family friend that runs a restaurant and I can get all the bottles I need. I am also in trading mode with some of my friends, but every once in a while it's just nice to have new bottles to grab from the case, sanitize, fill and put back in the case. No recycling ones I don't want, scraping, washing, scraping, sorting, scraping, sanitizing, and did I mention no scraping? I'm actually pretty good at it now and can knock out 24 bottles in anevening but since I batch all my bottling to a few times a year I do upwards of 250+ bottles in the few weeks before bottling new bottles are secret little joy of mine. I can't tell you what a pleasure it was to open the 375's I ordered for the Orange Chocolate Port and the Chocolate Raspberry Port.

 

[Joanie]

The new matching bottles makes you feel rich, doesn't it Coaster?

 

[Wade E]

Yeah, I even cheated with my Port wine and bought a case of new Ballissima bottles to make up for the ones I was missing. I highly dought that Ill ever need to do that with a 750 bottle though except for the Cobalt bottles which Ive been saving forever(3 1/2 Years) and still only have like 14 bottles. I may have to buy 1 case of these eventually.

 

[Joanie]

That's what I bought today...Bellisisma bottles. Then I got a little carried away! The champagne green Bordeaux and the smoke Burgundy were too beautiful to pass up!

 

[Jeff H]

Yikes...I'm hooked?! Oh well, I guess I'll have to live with the consequences. Off to get more bottle tonight.


Yep I can do plumbing but it was an easy job.

 

[Jeff H]

Jack,


Thanks for the welcome.

 

[PolishWineP]

The Polish Wine Princess would like to welcome Jeff to the forum.

Just look at what you started here, Jeff. Everyone hates cleaning bottles.

It's like having to eat a dinner you don't like just so you can have dessert. Even if I were rich I'd probably keep cleaning (read have Bert keep cleaning) bottles. It just seems silly to not do that. I do enjoy pitching an occasional bottle into the recycling bin. Some just aren't worth the hassle.

 

[Jeff H]

PWP,


Thanks again for the welcome. I can afford to buy the bottles but I just can't seem to wrap my brain around the shipping cost. Especially when I can put forth a little effort and time and get them for "free". I soak them for a while, some of the labels come right off, other are more determine to hold onto their identity. A little elbow grease and sharp razor blade seems to do the trick. I'm still a "newbie"

so it's all good...talk to me in a few months and I'll proabaly do a "ba humbug" to "free" bottles, lol. Besides with my first kit in theprimary I have a little free time on my hands. You can only watch the blub blub of the airlock for so long.

Jeff


P.S. I mean no offense to anyone, this is just my newbie 2 cents.

 

[Milwood]

Lucky for me we have a pretty good size winery about 20 minutes from here. They do their Seyval in the cobalt blue bottles. The wife and I go their fairly regularly so the owner lets us take as many free bottles as we want (we do buy a fair amount of wine each time we go). I have also been going after the cobalt blue bottles and have about 4 cases of them now. They sure are pretty for those whites!

 

[Coaster]

The new matching bottles makes you feel rich, doesn't it Coaster?

yes!

I still recycle most all my bottles but man I do look forward to those new bottles when the opportunity comes.

 

[Joanie]

I haven't had new bottles in I can't remember when...except for the case of green 375s I keep for myself. I have some used bottles but not enough to bottle all I want to bottle in the next few days.

 

[Wade E]

Jeff, the ore you get into this hobby the more bottles you will need and the more expensive those bottles will be as you will have 3 or 4 batches to bottle instead of 1. i recycle 98% of my bottles and try to get the 1's I give away back as my labels come off easy with a good hot water soak.