Do you love making wine at home? If you do then you’ll defiantly want to learn how to save cash and make the whole process a lot easier. A way to cut your costs can be to re-use the wine bottles. You can get a case of twelve Bordeaux style seven hundred ML wine bottles for about $15.00 but that is almost an extra $40.00 when you are making twenty three litres if you buy new wine bottles every time.

So, instead of wasting all that cash on getting new wine bottles, maybe consider getting the following things from a wine makers supply shop:

  1. Bottle Washer (Brass)
  2. Sulphatizer or what is known as a Vinator
  3. Bottle Tree or what is known as a bottle drainer

Bottle Washer (Brass)

This bottle washer is threaded onto your water faucet and inside of it is a valve. The water pressure that is against this valve will shut the washer off. As you put the wine bottle over the end and push down, the valve will open allowing the water to go into the wine bottle at a very high pressure. This is going to help get rid of any residue that is stuck inside the wine bottle and clean it really good.

Sulphatizer

A vinator or sulphatizer is a cool device that is used as a sanitizer for wine bottles. It’s made of plastic and it holds a sulfite solution. The middle holds a spring loaded tube. When you turn the wine bottles upside down and push down so that you force the tube down then the sulfite solution will be sprayed into the wine bottle. About 3-4 squirts will ensure good coverage of the wine bottles surface.

Bottle Tree

This drainer comes in all different sizes and will usually hold about 90 wine bottles. They usually come so that a vinator could be attached at the top. There are holders that are pointed up which you slide the opening of the wine bottles over. This will allow the wine bottles to drain and dry. Also, with the bottles being upside down then the sulfite gas that is released with rise into the wine bottle making sure it’s fully sanitized.

With the right tools re-using wine bottles can be safe and cost efficient.

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