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So do most of you bottle from a bucket with fill hose attached to spigot or do you siphon from carboy to the bottle? Thanks Mike
I use a bucket, it helps to avoid getting sediment in the bottles during bottling, and it's easier with a bottling wand attached to the spigot on the bottling bucket. Make gravity work for you.
Regards, GF.
Bucket. It is much easier to get even priming when you mix the priming sugar in the bucket.
Cut a 1 1/2" piece of tubing and attach the bottling wand directly to the spigot. Raise the bottle onto the wand and fill. That is much easier than inserting the wand on a long hose into each bottle.
If you siphon from the carboy that forces you into measuring and priming into each bottle separately. This probably doubles or triples the time it would take to bottle the batch.
Your priming wine? Make sure you have champagne bottles then bud. If you are not priming I'd do the carboy, no need for extra air in your wine from an unneeded rack right before bottling.
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