{"id":1442,"date":"2010-04-15T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2010-04-25T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:14:13","slug":"giving-up-on-syrah-malo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/04\/15\/giving-up-on-syrah-malo\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Up on Syrah Malo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/syrah-malo-and-oak-into-the-barrels\/\">*said*<\/a> I would give the syrah a few more weeks to finish <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">MLF<\/a>, it really doesn&#8217;t seem realistic that it would get going if malic acid levels have not dropped at all after 4 weeks.\u00a0 I might actually be risking something bad happening in the wine in the meantime.\u00a0 I posted this problem on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winepress.us\/forums\/index.php\">winepress.us<\/a>, and it seems that syrah is one varietal that has problems finishing malo.\u00a0 There was also agreement that the alcohol level is simply too high for the bacteria to tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>So, today I treated it with <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">sulfite<\/a> and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/lysozyme\/\">lysozyme<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let those do their thing for 5 to 10 days, then rack the wine off.\u00a0 I think this is the best option, since the wine does taste pretty good as it is.\u00a0 Better safe than sorry!<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/hostedbadge.php?s=5\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I *said* I would give the syrah a few more weeks to finish MLF, it really doesn&#8217;t seem realistic that it would get going if malic acid levels have not dropped at all after 4 weeks.\u00a0 I might actually be risking something bad happening in the wine in the meantime.\u00a0 I posted this problem [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442"}],"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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}