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4. Place the secondary fermenter holding the wine on a table
or counter top, tilting as before.
5. Arrange the bottles on a towel on the floor in front of the
fermenter and install the plastic hose clamp on the plastic
tubing so you can turn off the flow of wine when switching
from bottle to bottle.
6. Put the plastic tubing in a bottle and the racking tube in
the wine, pump the racking tube and start the flow of wine,
pulling the tube higher in the bottle as the level of the wine
increases. Stop the flow of wine when it is about half an inch
into the bottom of the neck of the wine bottle. Put the tube in
the next bottle and repeat the process until you run out of
wine or there are no more bottles to fill.
7. One at a time, place the bottles on a solid floor, and use
your corker to install one of the sterilized corks. Only work
with one bottle at a time. As each bottle is corked, set it out of
the way. Repeat until all of the bottles are corked.
8. Clean and sanitize your fermenting vessels, racking tube,
and plastic tubing.
9. Now you can make and apply wine labels if you wish.
10. Enjoy at your leisure or give as a gift.
