{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-30T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T07:45:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7\" title=\"Duckin' behind cabernet\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/duckin-behind-cabernet.jpg\" alt=\"2008 Cabernet Sauvignon to be destemmed at Witch Creek Winery\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/duckin-behind-cabernet.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/duckin-behind-cabernet-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2008 Cabernet Sauvignon to be destemmed at Witch Creek Winery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several things inspired me to take up the home winemaking hobby:\u00a0 I love wine, I love doing things myself, and I love learning new processes; I live near several winemaking areas; and many of my friends make their own craft beer at home.\u00a0 When I first started researching where to start, I was a little intimidated about trying to find a source of grapes, and then figuring out what exactly to do with them even if I found them.\u00a0 I was completely unaware that wine kits existed.\u00a0 I have since found that many people don\u2019t know about these magical boxes of joy, and how easy they are and how good the resulting wine is.\u00a0 So, I wanted to start a blog to share my experiences and discoveries in the world of home winemaking.<\/p>\n<p>Why Wine in the Shower?\u00a0 Any home brewer or winemaker is excited to have a spare bathroom to use as a laboratory for the sometimes messy processes associated with making beer or wine at home.\u00a0 Beer can definitely be more messy, I have not yet had a carboy of wine explode like a rapidly fermenting carboy of beer (hops on the ceiling!).\u00a0 I have, however, had a carboy of wine foam over the top during degassing &#8212; the one time the wine was not in the shower, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this blog will be useful and inspiring to anyone wanting to start their own winemaking at home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several things inspired me to take up the home winemaking hobby:\u00a0 I love wine, I love doing things myself, and I love learning new processes; I live near several winemaking areas; and many of my friends make their own craft beer at home.\u00a0 When I first started researching where to start, I was a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}