![Bottling at North 42 Degrees Estate Winery](https://www.windsoreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/North-42-Bottling-788-1024x678.jpg)
North 42 Degrees Estate Winery was bottling their red wines this weekend and it was a site to behold.
The Essex Pelee Island Coast winery rolled in an 18-wheeler on Saturday that has been completely outfitted with a bottling line. The 53 foot long mobile unit, owned by Custom Quality Bottling in Campbellford, Ontario, was on site for half a day pushing out bottles of North 42’s reds at a rate of about 52 bottles per minute.
![An 18 wheeler full of wine? I like the sounds of that.](https://www.windsoreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/North-42-Bottling-789-1024x678.jpg)
With just over 5000 litres of red wine to bottle, North 42 Degrees has to reach out for bottling help as they are without a bottling line of their own. Word on street is that for wineries which produce under 30,000 cases, it’s not financially viable to invest in a bottling line. North 42 does 5000 cases a year.
![Bottles sliding down the line.](https://www.windsoreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/North-42-Bottling-792-1024x678.jpg)
Owners Martin Gorski and Suzanne Dajczak love the buzz it creates at the winery with the staff.
“It’s a great team building thing. We get a lot of instant gratification,” Martin says. “Rarely do you get that in this industry. We’re bottling 2013 now. It’s been a long time. The guys that planted this stuff and grew this stuff have long forgot it. With bottling you go from whats in the tank to the finished product instantly.”
![Packaged and ready to sell!](https://www.windsoreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/North-42-Bottling-793-678x1024.jpg)