{"id":901,"date":"2009-12-29T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?page_id=901"},"modified":"2009-12-30T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:05:36","slug":"lees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/lees\/","title":{"rendered":"lees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A layer of deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of &#8220;fining&#8221;, to the bottom of a vat of wine after fermentation and aging.\u00a0 \u201cGross lees\u201d refers to a thick layer of grape skins, seeds, and dead yeast that fall out of wine following <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/press-pressing-wine\/\">pressing<\/a>;\u00a0 \u201cfine lees\u201d are the residual dead yeast and other particles that continue to fall out of wine over time due to gravity or as a result of the addition of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/fining-agents\/\">fining agents<\/a>, and is typically not as thick as the gross lees layer.\u00a0 Wine is <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racked<\/a> off of the lees in order to avoid the development of &#8220;off-tastes&#8221; as well as to increase <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/clearing-cleared-clarification\/\">clarification<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A layer of deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of &#8220;fining&#8221;, to the bottom of a vat of wine after fermentation and aging.\u00a0 \u201cGross lees\u201d refers to a thick layer of grape skins, seeds, and dead yeast that fall out of wine following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":829,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901\/revisions\/952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}