How to drip a wax coating on the top of your bottles?

If you want to drip a wax coating on the top of your bottles to add that special touch. You can do as the following steps:

There’s nothing that gives a bottle that swashbuckling air so much as a drippy, waxy, melty seal. Luckily, it’s easy to do. Once you find the right kind of wax, that is. Some folks use beeswax, but I find that sometimes the smell of the wax is a little too much for me and it can be very soft and comes off easily. Candle wax just looks like, well, candle wax, and paraffin is out of the question.

The technique I use? Melt the wine bottle sealing wax in a small deep saucepan, or save your saucepan and use a coffee can, on top of your stove over medium heat – this can take a long time, close to two hours. Covering the pan helps the bottle sealing wax to melt more quickly. Make sure the corks are completely flush with the lip of the bottle (so no air bubbles will be trapped underneath) and dip the neck of your bottles in as far as you’d like. For a 750 mL size, I like to cover the cork and go about 1/2-inch more. Take the bottle out of the bottle sealing wax and let it dribble down the sides as it cools. It will cool relatively quickly, so re-dip if you’re not getting enough dripping to suit your tastes. As with anything new, it always helps to practice a few times on some old recycled wine bottles before you do it with your real product.

BEWARE: This is hot bottle dripping wax you’re working with and it can hurt you if it comes in contact with your skin. These bottle dripping waxes work so well for bottles specifically because they have a higher melting point than most other waxes. You’ll have to get them a lot hotter in order to make them melt. Some of these bottle dripping waxes are also flammable. Please check with us, as using a gas stove to do this might be asking for trouble.

Another heating alternative is a store-bought home deep fryer. It’ll get hot enough to do the job, will heat evenly from all sides and will not cause any fires if used properly.