{"id":471,"date":"2009-09-12T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-12-30T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:32:10","slug":"syrah-fermenting-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/09\/12\/syrah-fermenting-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrah Fermenting Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-472\" style=\"margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"fermenting syrah\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fermenting-syrah.JPG\" alt=\"fermenting syrah\" width=\"323\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fermenting-syrah.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fermenting-syrah-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I take the weekend punching duty for the wines in the server room.\u00a0 I tested the syrah, the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/brix\/\">brix<\/a> are down to 6 in one can and 2.5 in the other already!\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure I added too much nutrient, so we\u2019re not going to add any more (which is convenient for my home wine \u2013 the nutrient was backordered so I need it!).\u00a0 Paul told me the fermentation got up to over 90 degrees on Wednesday (yikes!), but happily the temps were a normal 72-75 degrees today.\u00a0 When I punched I noticed a smell of bananas again, like we had with the cabernet sauvignon, but also with a lot of spice.<\/p>\n<p>The color is beautiful, I\u2019m thinking that\u2019s the opti-red we added:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-473\" title=\"syrah in glass\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/syrah-in-glass.JPG\" alt=\"syrah in glass\" width=\"238\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/syrah-in-glass.JPG 348w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/syrah-in-glass-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/> I brought home some samples to test pH, both cans are at about pH 3.5, perfect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take the weekend punching duty for the wines in the server room.\u00a0 I tested the syrah, the brix are down to 6 in one can and 2.5 in the other already!\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure I added too much nutrient, so we\u2019re not going to add any more (which is convenient for my home wine [&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":[28,4,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}