{"id":1587,"date":"2010-07-23T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2010-07-23T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:16:47","slug":"cleaning-airlocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/07\/23\/cleaning-airlocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Airlocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning to bottle the <a href=\"\/index.php\/tag\/syrah\/\">syrah<\/a> soon, and I will also probably bottle the <a href=\"\/index.php\/tag\/primitivo\/\">primitivo<\/a> as well. The merlot and petite sirah in the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/12\/19\/as-the-lees-settle\/\">barrels<\/a> have not picked up enough oak for our tastes, so we&#8217;re going to leave them for another year.  I realized I haven&#8217;t cleaned out the airlocks on my carboys of wine for a while, so it seemed like a good thing to do today.  While rooting through all of the carboys and bottles in the shower, I found yet another small 4-L bottle of merlot with the infamous <a href=\"I realized I haven't cleaned out the airlocks on my carboys of wine for a while, so it seemed like a good thing to do today.  \">white layer<\/a> on top.  I poked a pipet in to draw a small sample and also pull out the white gunk (it pretty much sticks to the pipet side).  There are no off-odors in the wine, and it tastes fine &#8212; really good actually, good fruit and good acid.\u00a0  Now more waiting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning to bottle the syrah soon, and I will also probably bottle the primitivo as well. The merlot and petite sirah in the barrels have not picked up enough oak for our tastes, so we&#8217;re going to leave them for another year. I realized I haven&#8217;t cleaned out the airlocks on my carboys [&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":[4,32,72,68,62,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}