Wine can move through a mobile bottling line at a rate of 65 bottles per minute. When it’s time for a wine to leave the cozy confines of a barrel or tank, winemakers know there won’t be anything between their product and the big, bad world but a glass bottle. “It’s the last defense,” says Mike Haddox, owner of the Winemakers Loft in Prosser, Washington. “If you blow that, you really pay the price.” Haddox makes wine for ten different labels, including his own Michael Florentino, and offers advice and guidance to the four other tenants in the loft at […]