{"id":1476,"date":"2010-06-14T15:50:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2010-06-14T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:50:23","slug":"barrel-tasting-and-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/06\/14\/barrel-tasting-and-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrel Tasting and Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I popped by to check on the merlot and petite sirah in barrels at my friends&#8217; office.\u00a0 While I was there I took some samples to test for free SO2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/syrah-malo-and-oak-into-the-barrels\/\">Last time<\/a> I tasted these wines there was no detectable oak, which was not expected from barrels that have only been used once so far.\u00a0 I added toasted American oak cubes to each barrel, and I can now taste decent oak in the merlot.\u00a0 However, the petite sirah is just flaccid, almost like water, with no oak or flavor or body &#8212; very disappointing!\u00a0 I would add more cubes to this barrel, but I&#8217;m currently out.\u00a0 There is at least pretty decent tannins, though I did expect more from petite sirah.\u00a0 I hope this one comes together!<\/p>\n<p>I tested the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/free-so2\/\">free SO2<\/a> for both, and at least that seems OK  &#8212; the petite sirah is at about 21 ppm, and the merlot is at 19 ppm.\u00a0 A good target is 25 ppm for free SO2 in red wines, but these are still high enough for now.\u00a0 We will add another dose of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">potassium metabisulfite<\/a> a few days before we bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I popped by to check on the merlot and petite sirah in barrels at my friends&#8217; office.\u00a0 While I was there I took some samples to test for free SO2. Last time I tasted these wines there was no detectable oak, which was not expected from barrels that have only been used once so far.\u00a0 [&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\/1476"}],"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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}