{"id":1253,"date":"2010-02-04T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2010-04-01T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T21:32:10","slug":"more-infection-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/02\/04\/more-infection-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"More Infection Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256\" title=\"IMG_0001 1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0001-1.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0001 1\" width=\"436\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0001-1.JPG 2048w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0001-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0001-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I discovered that one of the 4-liter bottles of merlot has a funky white layer similar to the one I found on the rescued <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/01\/18\/racking-primitivo-and-petite-sirah-sludge\">petite sirah<\/a>.  I hope I can remedy this one better, since the infection <a href=\"\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=1241\">came back<\/a> in the petite sirah after racking.\u00a0 Before <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racking<\/a> I dipped cotton swabs in a <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">Kmeta<\/a> solution and tried to fish off some of the white stuff.  I racked it into a clean bottle, and soaked the oak in cleaner\/sanitizer solution before rinsing and adding back.  I also stirred in a pinch of Kmeta to make sure there&#8217;s enough sulfite to keep the stuff from growing back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1257 alignnone\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 2px;\" title=\"IMG_0004 1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0004-1.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0004 1\" width=\"253\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0004-1.JPG 2048w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0004-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0004-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is at least very clear.\u00a0 Nice oaky, fruity aromas, nothing strange;\u00a0 the flavors are also great, lots of oak with tart fruit, but no detectable off tastes.\u00a0 There is a good bit of acidity on the tongue, but our merlot last year was really big and tart similar to this at this stage.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll hope for the best, a whole gallon of wine would be quite a loss if I can&#8217;t get rid of whatever this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered that one of the 4-liter bottles of merlot has a funky white layer similar to the one I found on the rescued petite sirah. I hope I can remedy this one better, since the infection came back in the petite sirah after racking.\u00a0 Before racking I dipped cotton swabs in a Kmeta solution [&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":[33,4,32,8,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"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=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}