Sweet Nectar of the Gods

As you must have read in my earlier blog---for our 2 year Anniversary, Rian bought me a certificate so that we could go make our own wine together. I chose to make a Cab Sav.
First we did the mixing of the ingredients at the end of May--which didn't take long at all. Then the mixture had to sit for 6 weeks. Then, at the beginning of July we went in to bottle our wine. It was an interesting set-up with all of the pipes and bottles and everything--but Rian and I had lots of fun fill up our 30 bottles of our own wine!
Here is a picture story of how we made it:

This is the bottle that our wine was made in and where it fermented.....

This is the actual bottling machine....the tube from our big jug hooks right up to it and you are able to stick the bottle in there. You press a button and it knows exactly when to stop filling the bottle!

Here is Rian pressing the button and watching the bottle fill up with our yummy wine!Now this is the corking machine. Here I am putting the cork on top and then sticking the bottle under it...

And here Rian and I are moving the lever down to push the cork down into the bottle. MUSCLES!And here is our finished product! One of THREE cases of wine!

I am happy with my present and excited to drink the Rian & Noelle wine!
It was a great present and I really cannot wait until we can drink it. The downfall is that we have to wait NINE MONTHS before we can drink it! Man....I don't know if I can wait that long!
In the meantime, we bought labels that we are going to put on the bottles---we can print them out on the computer and knowing us, Rian and I will be putting funny picture of us on the bottles. They will be big items on Ebay--so watch out for that!