{"id":386,"date":"2009-05-06T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T09:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:45:02","slug":"racking-cab-sauv-kit-and-starting-riesling-reserve-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/05\/06\/racking-cab-sauv-kit-and-starting-riesling-reserve-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Cab Sauv Kit and Starting Riesling Reserve Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was time to rack<\/a> off the cabernet sauvignon kit into a carboy.\u00a0 I noticed a distinct aroma of bananas, just like we smelled when the cabernet sauvignon grapes were fermenting.\u00a0 The color is great, this is going to be a pretty decent wine for the money.<\/p>\n

Next I set up to start the Alsatian rielsing reserve kit from Winexpert.\u00a0 This rielsing should be quite a contrast to the \u201cold vines\u201d Canadian Riesling from last year, as this style of Riesling does not have an added \u201csweetness pack\u201d, but instead should give a very light, dry, crisp Riesling.\u00a0 As I was pouring the juice out of the bag, though, I noticed a dark brown precipitate at the bottom of the bag.<\/p>\n

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I debated what to do, and opted to not pour out the last bit of dregs that included this dark substance.\u00a0 It was maybe about a cup of juice left in the bag, so I figured it would not make a substantial impact if it didn\u2019t go in.\u00a0 The starting SG<\/a> was at 1.088, the low end of the recommended SG range, but still in range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was time to rack off the cabernet sauvignon kit into a carboy.\u00a0 I noticed a distinct aroma of bananas, just like we smelled when the cabernet sauvignon grapes were fermenting.\u00a0 The color is great, this is going to be a pretty decent wine for the money. Next I set up to start the Alsatian […]<\/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":[4,22,21,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}