[Growwine] Unusual topic, but

[Vernon Speer]

Wayne...just an idea

I've been experimenting (read putzing around) with champagning my fruit 
wines. If you've got the wine and using Andre's bottles with crown 
caps, try this.
Add a couple of ounces of simple sugar to the wine, now the sneaky 
part, put your yeast in a dialysis membrane tube, I use 10mm, 14,000 
MWCO, sealed at both ends, and drop in the bottle. The yeast eats the 
sugar, but the residue stays in the tube, a little osmosis thing...this 
eliminates the degorging!!! Results have been very encouraging...if for 
no other reason than my degorging efforts to clear the plug have 
resulted in a lot of excitement and an unsightly ceiling in the 
kitchen. Dialysis membrane tubes should be available from any medical 
supply house.

On Jul 2, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Wayne Holland wrote:

  I've been using bottle caps for 20 years. A bit of an uphill climb to 
begin when I brought out a crown capped bottle, but the contents proved 
the concept.  In 1986 a friend and I made a very good barrel of 
Zinfandel from California grapes and we decided to do 
the definitive test. A dozen under cork, a dozen crown capped in 750 mL 
Andres sparkling wine bottles (regular cap). We have opened them blind 
over the years with friends and ALWAYS got the opinion that the crown 
cap tasted 'better'. Luck held and no corks failed. The last 2 went 4 
years ago. Steinlager beer is a great bottle. I do a lot into Corona 
bottles. No label to soak off, easy to see if clean, nice size for 
dinner.

cheers, wayne
On 2-Jul-08, at 4:03 PM, Larry Paterson wrote:

> Does anyone know of a Canadian supplier who can access the European 
> size crown caps (the 29 mm size, not the more usual 26 mm we see here 
> in Canada on beer bottles and sparkling wine).  Also, does anyone know 
> where a capper or adaptor could be found to use these caps?
>  
> I think that keeping 1-3 year wines in such containers (assuming you 
> can locate the right bottles) would be a very wallet -and -environment 
> friendly way to bottle wines.  Think of that riesling or gewurz, vidal 
> or prairie star that you will drink over the next three years.  Why 
> not a bottle cap?
>  
>  
> Lardy
>  
> Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc
> (Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)
>  
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