It has been over a month since I racked the plum wine. I finally had a chance to clean all the bottles that I had saved so I would be ready to bottle this batch of wine. The first step was to sterilize them all with boiling water. I simple heat up water in my tea kettle and pour it into each bottle and let it sit for a couple minutes before emptying. I set them up to dry on a clean towel and then prepared my set up for bottling. One by one I filled the bottles using a siphon hose to transfer the wine from the large glass carboy to the bottles. Once I was done, I used a turkey baster to even out the amounts of wine in the top of each bottle - leaving room for a cork. Then one by one I used my cork press to cork each bottle. I filled a total of 22 bottles plus a half gallon growler bottle with this beautiful and delicious sweet plum wine.
I think that this amount of wine is a pretty good return on a box of plums, a packet of yeast, and a couple of bags of sugar. I think the total cost came in around $45 which translates to just a little over $2 a bottle. Not a bad price for a tasty and colorful homemade bottle of wine.
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