{"id":2468,"date":"2011-10-13T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:55:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:55:35","slug":"syrah-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/10\/13\/syrah-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrah Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m finally getting around to taking care of the 2010 Syrah<\/a> we just brought down, plus I need to stir and check the progression of the MLF <\/a>on the 2011 Syrah<\/a>.\u00a0 My Hands-on Winemaking class did the initial test for lactic acid in all four batches of the 2011 Syrah last Sunday, and all showed a strong positive level of lactic acid production.\u00a0 When we tested the malic acid levels, all batches were around 75 mg\/L except batch #1, which was fermented with ICV-D80.\u00a0 It showed >500 mg\/L malic acid.\u00a0 When I tested it today, it still showed that level!\u00a0 Just to double check (and I had one extra lactic acid test), I double checked that the lactic acid was positive, and it was definitely around 100-120 mg\/L lactic acid.\u00a0 I then checked batch #2, and the malic acid levels were still around 75 mg\/L.\u00a0 Since the first 2 were showing the same results as a few days ago, I skipped the last 2 batches and just gave them a stir.\u00a0 I’ll test malic acid levels again in about 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

Then I moved on to the 2010 vintage of Live Oak Vineyard Syrah.\u00a0 I got out my handy-dandy (yes I love this thing!) Vinmetrica SC-100 sulfite analyzer<\/a>, and in less than 2 minutes knew there is basically NO free SO2<\/a> in the barrel.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 Doing a quick calculation from The Winemaker’s Answer Book, I estimated I should add about 7.5 grams of Kmeta<\/a>, which is about 1 1\/2 teaspoons.\u00a0 After stirring this in, I need to take a little volume out of the barrel so I can put in a pound of medium toast Hungarian oak cubes.\u00a0 The 5-gallon carboy was partially full, but since I didn’t want to deal with this on Monday I added marbles to the Better Bottle to top it up into the neck to minimize air exposure.\u00a0 Which means now I need to get the marbles out so I can put the extra wine from the barrel in.\u00a0 Since my hand won’t reach down the neck of the carboy, I racked the wine out, dumped out the marbles, then pulled the wine from the barrel and added this back to the carboy.\u00a0 Yes, a bit of probably needless wine shuffling, but it happens.\u00a0 At least I did think to dump in about 2 ounces of medium toast French oak chips into the 6-gallon carboy as I was filling it.\u00a0 Now we’ll let that oak hang out for a few months and hopefully the syrah will come around the way we want it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I’m finally getting around to taking care of the 2010 Syrah we just brought down, plus I need to stir and check the progression of the MLF on the 2011 Syrah.\u00a0 My Hands-on Winemaking class did the initial test for lactic acid in all four batches of the 2011 Syrah last Sunday, and all […]<\/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":[76,60,33,4,40,41,45,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}