It’s a job and somebody has to do it (PICK ME, PICK ME!)

During bottling and labelling the quality control team takes out all of the bottles with low fills, cracks, leaking corks and any other discrepancies.  These bottles are then packed on to a pallet and at some stage all of the bottles have to be opened, the wine checked (i.e. sniffed and tasted) and then the decision is made to either reject the bottle (which will then get sent away to the people who distill out the alcohol) or poured back into a tank for re-bottling.

There are 40 bottles on a layer and about 14 layers so that’s about 560 bottles that need to be opened and checked. 

Hic!