I live in WA and it has been cold and damp for weeks. I tried to sanitize and rinse my wine bottles, but days later, they are still not dry!!! what can I do? Do they need to be sanitized and dried again? how can I get the bottles to dry quickly. I really need some advice, thanks.
You are kidding, aren't you? Use as is. I don't know anyone who waits until they are dry.
Worse yet, if they're allowed to dry they could actually become contaminated again. I would never let the bottles dry, nor would I rinse them after sanitizing them. What's the point of sanitizing them if you're just going to rinse them again?
My obsessive-compulsive tendencies drive me to do repeated tap water rinses followed by repeated distilled water rinses followed by a final rinse with a sulfite solution made with distilled water. As soon as possible after this I start filling and corking.
Greg G.
If you really want them to dry, you could do what I do with manual washing and rinse them well under very very hot water. The heat tends to evaporate the water off quicker than cold rinses. I must admit I would go with the other posters if possible and bottle once rinsed.
For this reason I de-label and rinse through on different days so that my rinsing can coincide with bottling...
Jim
Theoretically, if your wine is protected with enough SO2 you don't even need to rinse them but I'm not recommending it. Rinse until they smell clean then fill and cork.
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