I've been making wine for a while, and bottling day can be a real chore. For the longest time, I was making a simple mistake that made filling bottles so much more difficult than it needed to be. I use one of those simple and cheap gravity-feed bottle fillers, and while they are great, I always struggled with getting the fill level just right without making a mess. It probably took me about 100 bottles before I finally figured out this one little trick that completely changed my bottling process, making it faster, cleaner, and honestly, a lot more enjoyable.

In this quick video, I'll show you the secret to using a gravity wine bottle filler that you might not know. It’s a super simple adjustment you can make on the fly that gives you total control over the flow rate. This allows you to slow things down right at the end so you can hit the perfect fill level in the neck of the bottle every single time. By the time you displace the fluid with the wand, the level is perfect, and the valve shuts off with no drips. This is the kind of tip I wish I knew when I first started home winemaking!

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Chapters
00:00 - The Bottling Mistake I Made
00:13 - How Gravity Bottle Fillers Work
00:35 - Connecting to Your Siphon
00:55 - The Flow Control HACK You Must Try
01:09 - Getting the Perfect Fill Level
01:23 - Make Bottling Wine Easier