{"id":1241,"date":"2010-02-01T15:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2010-02-02T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:39:07","slug":"wine-update-syrah-taste-and-giving-up-on-ps-sludge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/02\/01\/wine-update-syrah-taste-and-giving-up-on-ps-sludge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Update, Syrah Taste, and Giving Up on PS Sludge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from Dave today, he and Paul checked out the merlot and petite sirah on Friday.  Since this is our second year in the barrel, neither wine is very oaky yet.  By this time <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/01\/07\/checking-on-the-barrel-wines\/\">last year<\/a> the wine in the barrels had much more oak.\u00a0 The petite sirah is a little more vegetal than he likes, but that will probably (hopefully?) mellow out over time.\u00a0 Otherwise, everything looks and smells fine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1250\" title=\"syrah 020110\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/syrah-020110.jpg\" alt=\"syrah 020110\" width=\"205\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/syrah-020110.jpg 1623w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/syrah-020110-300x283.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/syrah-020110-1024x969.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave asked about the syrah, which I haven&#8217;t really tasted since I racked it in <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/12\/19\/as-the-lees-settle\/\">December<\/a>.\u00a0 So, I felt that I should get a taste, to see how it&#8217;s progressing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s already very clear, a lovely ruby-garnet color.\u00a0 It has great aromas of a lot of fruit with a hint of spice.\u00a0 It tastes like cherry cough syrup, though.\u00a0 Not necessarily in a bad way, because it&#8217;s so early, the fruit and spice just needs to integrate better.\u00a0 Also, it did not complete <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">MLF<\/a>, which I want to try again in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Then I checked on the bottle of the petite sirah that was rescued from the dregs, but had a weird <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/01\/18\/racking-primitivo-and-petite-sirah-sludge\">white layer<\/a> on top.\u00a0 It seems to be regrowing a white layer, so this bit of wine will likely be fed to my vinegar jar.\u00a0 There has been some debate over the cause of the white layer, I&#8217;ve been told it could either be acetobacter or a film yeast infection.\u00a0 Either way, I&#8217;m not going to risk ruining the rest of the wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from Dave today, he and Paul checked out the merlot and petite sirah on Friday. Since this is our second year in the barrel, neither wine is very oaky yet. By this time last year the wine in the barrels had much more oak.\u00a0 The petite sirah is a little more [&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":[33,4,32,72,62,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}