Bottling for the first time

[Gwand]

Good morning mentors. I will be bottling wine for the first time. After sanitizing the bottles with a sulfite solution can I rinse with well water or bottled spring water? Or do I have to boil the water to sterilize it first. My well water is conditioned but not chlorinated. Thank you

 

[salcoco]

just let them drip dry and fill no rinsing necessary. any residue solution will help protect wine

 

[Runningwolf]

Salcoco is exactly right. You just sanitized the bottles, don't do anything to compromise that. The alcohol industry is the only one that sanitizes and NOT sterilizes. The alcohol does that for us.

 

[Turock]

I totally agree. Never rinse after using meta on any of your equipment.

We pull the bottles out of the meta bath and don't even allow them to drip dry---the small amount of meta solution in the bottle is a good thing.