Facility provides tools/equipment necessary for patrons to make their own wine
Patrons are given a large plastic container that contains the juice, which is then transferred to a large glass container where their juice ferments into wine. Each large glass container is labelled for each customer.
Once the wine is ready to be bottled, customers bring their own wine bottles to the facility. The customers are responsible washing, rinsing, and sanitizing their wine bottles with potassium metabisulphate (which is available at the sink on-site). The clean and sanitized bottles are then attached to the large glass containers of wine via a plastic tube that then uses a gravity-feed system to fill the bottles.
The plastic tubes, the glass container, and the plastic container (and its lid) are all washed, rinsed, and sanitized by the facility using a combination of diversol and potassium metabisulphate.
The corks that are used for the large glass containers of wine are also soaked in the two chemicals so that there is sufficient contact time for the cork to be fully penetrated by the sanitizer.
Customers are only allowed to taste their own wine (not anyone else's, nor is there any wine prepared by the store for general public tasting).
All handwash stations equipped with liquid soap, paper towels, hot/cold running water.
General sanitation of facility is excellent.
All items that come into contact with the wine/juice are stored off the floor
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