Finished bottling the 2012 Vintage Cabernet Franc from the Columbia Valley. The pictures below show the machinery and process we use to bottle wine. On average we can bottle and label around 1100 bottles an hour.

Empty bottles arrive already in the box

Bottles get placed a on a short conveyor belt which sends them around a filling carousel

The hopper completly full of corks 

The wine level in each bottle is adjusted to a uniform height then sent through a corking apparatus

Bottles on the journey from corking machine to foiling machine

Lots of foils

Labels get applied

Bottles end the journey ready for consumption!