Open Waxed Bottles
Artiste wines are traditionally hand-dipped with a colorful wax seal, the way it was done before modern bottling. It also exhibits our commitment to hand-made wines in that every bottle is hand-inspected and hand-dipped into hot wax.
So here's the secret to opening Artiste's wax-dipped bottles...To open, simply drive right through the wax with your waiter's style corkscrew and pull the cork through the wax! Warming the wax in the under hot water for a 30 seconds prior to opening is also helpful.
To avoid pouring over wax and to avoid spilling on your precious Artiste wine labels, we recommend using $7 dripless pourers or $1.50 DropStop Wine Pourers, available at
http://www.barparts.com.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about this!
- Bion Rice, Winemaker