"Jake Speed" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:19:48 -0500, "Pino" > wrote:
>
>>Should labels and shrink wrap be applied before bottle aging or
>>afterwards?
>>
>
> Bottle BEFORE the point at which you forget what wine is in which
> bottles! :-)
>
> I did that once -- bottled 3 batches of red wine the same evening, but
> didn't bother to label them because I knew I'd remember which cases
> where which. A month or so later I discovered, to my chagrin, that my
> memory was not quite as good as I had thought it was.
>
> I had to taste a bottle from each case to determine which was which,
> so it wasn't a total loss ...
>
You are so right. I still have some mystery wine that I forgot to label
several years ago. Label when you bottle!

Ray