We've gotten quite good with the label removing process.
First you have to sort them.
There are water soluble labels and pain in the butt labels. To know which
from which you have to look at the label from the back of the bottle
(through the glass to see the unprinted side, if that makes any sense) if
there seem to be lines of glue, like the back side is striped with glue,
then it's water soluble.
You can also check by trying to peel it off, if the corner that you manage
to lift off is sticky to the touch don't put it in water! Makes it worse
trying to get it off later. Most of the water soluble ones will just slip
off with a 30 minute soak. The rest you will have to get off by applying an
adhesive remover/gas/paint solvent or whatever you may have ( don't get this
in your bottles ) and let it sit for about 10 minutes, then gently peel it
off re-applying your solvent if necessary.
After that it's just a matter of the usual bottle cleaning routine.
Hope this helps!
Louise)

"Akator" > wrote in message
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> Hi there,
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> I'm just wondering if anyones got some sound advice about how to remove
old
> labels from wine bottles?
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> Thanks.
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