1903 The still-room by C. Roundell

Wine^maki.

— and commonly is

though the wine may be

drawn off by a tap. In the latter case the tap should be inserted two or three days before the wine is to be drawn off, thus affording it time to

If it is not convenient to rack off the

re-settle.

may be drawn into a

wine into a second cask, it

A GROUP OF ANCIENT BOTTLES.

clean tub or vat, and returned to the same cask after it has been thoroughly cleaned, and turned bung-hole downwards over an ounce of sulphur, which is to be burnt so as to fill the cask with the fumes, the wine being at once returned and the bung secured. It is of the utmost consequence in wine-making 83