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I know there are a lot of posts here about removing labels. Over the weekend, I cleaned 30 bottles for bottling our first kit.
Here is an observation that can make removing labels easier, and possibly affect your bottled purchasing decisions. It has mine.
If you look through the bottle (clear or light green bottles, white wine) at the back of the label, you may noticed one of 2 different things. Either the label is uniformly stuck to the bottle (could have a few flat bubbles), or, the label is stuck on with lots of horizontal parallel rows of glue.
The first kind of labels respond to the razor blade scraping and then removal of the residual adhesive with a solvent. Naptha works better than acetone. And keep the razor blade clean of adhesive.
However, the second type of label uses a water soluble glue. These soak off easily in water. Depending on the paper and ink, scoring the paper several times with a razor blade will shorten the soak.
Meridian, Fetzer, and Forestville are now on my short list of easy-clean bottles.
I would suppose that the findings would be the same for reds from the same winery.
Here is an observation that can make removing labels easier, and possibly affect your bottled purchasing decisions. It has mine.
If you look through the bottle (clear or light green bottles, white wine) at the back of the label, you may noticed one of 2 different things. Either the label is uniformly stuck to the bottle (could have a few flat bubbles), or, the label is stuck on with lots of horizontal parallel rows of glue.
The first kind of labels respond to the razor blade scraping and then removal of the residual adhesive with a solvent. Naptha works better than acetone. And keep the razor blade clean of adhesive.
However, the second type of label uses a water soluble glue. These soak off easily in water. Depending on the paper and ink, scoring the paper several times with a razor blade will shorten the soak.
Meridian, Fetzer, and Forestville are now on my short list of easy-clean bottles.
I would suppose that the findings would be the same for reds from the same winery.