06 March 2012

Mobile bottling plant in the street

Periodically our street is closed for bottling wine from the various caves in our street. The mobile bottling plant - a huge truck which takes up the width of the street - arrives first thing in the morning and is there most of the day. The truck has extendable sides and, from the front end, a conveyor belt takes the bottles through washing, wine poured in, labels pasted on, cork inserted, seal over cork, then at the back the packers place bottles into boxes and the forklift takes them to another truck to transport to retailers. Quite an ingenious and efficient set-up. This wine is Clos de la Rivière, which we have tried and can confirm is very good!


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