{"id":2501,"date":"2011-11-11T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2011-11-11T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T23:18:53","slug":"sluggish-syrah-malo-finally-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/sluggish-syrah-malo-finally-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggish Syrah Malo Finally Done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just tested our 2011 <a href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/09\/07\/pitching-yeast-on-2011-syrah\/\">syrah batch #1<\/a> for malic acid levels, and it&#8217;s finally done!\u00a0 I&#8217;m still baffled why this one batch, out of four total, took 2 more weeks to finish <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">MLF <\/a>than the others.\u00a0 The particular yeast used (ICV-D80) must have produced something that was slowing down the malolactic bacteria.\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious if anyone else has ever noticed the same problem with this yeast.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s finally time to add <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">sulfite <\/a>and French oak chips and let this wine hang out for a few months.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll check in on it in 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just tested our 2011 syrah batch #1 for malic acid levels, and it&#8217;s finally done!\u00a0 I&#8217;m still baffled why this one batch, out of four total, took 2 more weeks to finish MLF than the others.\u00a0 The particular yeast used (ICV-D80) must have produced something that was slowing down the malolactic bacteria.\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious [&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":[60,33,4,79,40,41,45,62,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501"}],"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=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}