My riddling rack finally went into service as I've started to riddle 24 bottles of my 2022 Blanc de Noir in readiness for the holidays:
The platform pivots around a piano hinge and can be set at 5 angles: in round numbers, 25, 35, 45, 60 and 75 degrees. As shown above I initially designed it to riddle a case at a time; however if you turn the wine boxes the other way around it's the perfect size for two:
There's a compression strap around the wine boxes - it's about 100lb when fully loaded...
I encountered a problem when I loaded up my regular wine boxes. The bottles in the middle column of each box were fine, but if I pulled out one of the lower outside bottles (as one does during the riddling process), the bottles above would come crashing down through the cardboard spacers. D'oh! So I got a sheet of hardboard and made some wooden dividers:
I expect to be riddling for about 3 weeks, followed by a few more days shaking the bottles with the cap end down. Then disgorging, followed by a few weeks recovery before serving as part of the Thanksgiving festivities
The platform pivots around a piano hinge and can be set at 5 angles: in round numbers, 25, 35, 45, 60 and 75 degrees. As shown above I initially designed it to riddle a case at a time; however if you turn the wine boxes the other way around it's the perfect size for two:
There's a compression strap around the wine boxes - it's about 100lb when fully loaded...
I encountered a problem when I loaded up my regular wine boxes. The bottles in the middle column of each box were fine, but if I pulled out one of the lower outside bottles (as one does during the riddling process), the bottles above would come crashing down through the cardboard spacers. D'oh! So I got a sheet of hardboard and made some wooden dividers:
I expect to be riddling for about 3 weeks, followed by a few more days shaking the bottles with the cap end down. Then disgorging, followed by a few weeks recovery before serving as part of the Thanksgiving festivities
