Vintage Cellars Napa Winekeeper 4 bottle - Manual (Page 7)

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Cleaning Your Unit
When used correctly, your WineKeeper system prevents the oxidation process that causes wine to spoil.
Lack of proper maintenance will eliminate most of the benefits of your WineKeeper. Indications that your
system needs cleaning include wine with a cloudy look and /or an odd taste. We recommend that you
clean your system once a month or as needed.
Standard Cleaning Process
1. Close off the nitrogen pinch clamps.
2. Loosen the stopper assemblies in each bottle to release gas pressure.
3. Pull the handle on each faucet (with a glass below) to drain wine from each faucet and tube.
Remove the wine bottles. Do not place these used bottles back on the unit after you have
completed the cleaning process, these wines should be hand poured.
4. Mix the Wine Line Cleaner (WLC) solution with water as per the instructions printed on the
container (additional cleaning supplies are available from WineKeeper).
5. Pour this mixture into clean empty wine bottles (3 - 4 ounces is sufficient).
6. Replace and seal the stopper assemblies in each bottle then open the pinch clamps.
7. Pour off a small amount of the liquid. Allow solution to remain in the wine tubes for 10 minutes.
Dispense the remaining solution through the system.
8. Rinse by running one full bottle of hot
water through the system.
9. Mix ChlorTab Sanitizer solution per
instructions and repeat steps 5, 6 & 7
allowing three minutes of contact.
10. Rinse with hot water.
11. Remove the faucet assembly from the
thru-wall.
12. Unscrew the bonnet from the black
funnel shaped portion (faucet body) of
the faucet assembly.
13. Remove the seat cup from the stem.
Clean the seat cup and the faucet body
in the sanitizer. Rinse with warm water.
(DO NOT USE SOAP!) Dry and
re-assemble the faucet assembly.