{"id":2465,"date":"2011-10-10T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:23:13","slug":"syrah-goes-for-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/syrah-goes-for-a-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrah Goes for a Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and I are not happy with the way the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/09\/13\/pressing-the-2010-syrah\/\">2010 Syrah<\/a> is tasting.\u00a0 It has been hanging out in the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/10\/06\/the-new-flextank\/\">Flextank <\/a>for about a year now, with oak cubes, but it just tastes kind of closed up.\u00a0 Supposedly the Flextank &#8220;breathes&#8221; like a barrel, but right now I&#8217;m not buying that.\u00a0 We both agreed that we should move the syrah to one of the empty neutral barrels I have at the shop.\u00a0 So, hubby and I headed up to Fallbrook.\u00a0 Since we were in the &#8216;hood, <a href=\"http:\/\/liveoakvineyard.com\/\">Mike and Tricia<\/a> stopped by to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2472\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/syrah-goes-for-a-ride\/white-film-on-syrah\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2472\" title=\"white film on syrah\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/white-film-on-syrah-500x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/white-film-on-syrah-500x373.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/white-film-on-syrah.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first opened up the flextank, there was a very nasty layer of white film on top again.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen this <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/04\/01\/more-white-film-on-wine\/\">too many times before<\/a>, but it has always just been an innocuous pectin haze.\u00a0 The wine overall smells OK, though it has a slight acetylaldehyde whiff at first.\u00a0 This odor does go away with a little time in a glass, so hopefully will blow off with all of the transferring it will go through today.<\/p>\n<p>We pumped the wine out into several carboys and loaded them into the car with the empty flextank.\u00a0 Then the syrah got to go for a ride down to the shop, where it was pumped back into one of the empty, neutral American oak barrels.\u00a0 We also filled another whole 6-gallon Better Bottle and partially filled a 5-gallon carboy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a long day, so I pitched about a teaspoon of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">Kmeta <\/a>into the barrel and 1\/4 tsp into each carboy.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll check the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/free-so2\/\">free SO2<\/a> later and add some oak cubes, it definitely needs it!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2471\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/syrah-goes-for-a-ride\/2010-syrah-in-the-barrel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2471\" title=\"2010 syrah in the barrel\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2010-syrah-in-the-barrel-373x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2010-syrah-in-the-barrel-373x500.jpg 373w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2010-syrah-in-the-barrel.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and I are not happy with the way the 2010 Syrah is tasting.\u00a0 It has been hanging out in the Flextank for about a year now, with oak cubes, but it just tastes kind of closed up.\u00a0 Supposedly the Flextank &#8220;breathes&#8221; like a barrel, but right now I&#8217;m not buying that.\u00a0 We both agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,60,129,33,4,45,62,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}