{"id":1590,"date":"2010-08-06T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2010-08-06T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:46:36","slug":"getting-ready-for-syrah-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/08\/06\/getting-ready-for-syrah-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Syrah Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1592\" href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/08\/06\/getting-ready-for-syrah-harvest\/fallbrook-syrah-aug5-_2010\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1592\" title=\"Fallbrook Syrah Aug5 _2010\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fallbrook-Syrah-Aug5-_2010-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fallbrook-Syrah-Aug5-_2010-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fallbrook-Syrah-Aug5-_2010-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fallbrook-Syrah-Aug5-_2010.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got an email today from Mike Hoffman that the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/fallbrook-vineyard-visit\/\">syrah<\/a> started veraison and harvest should be around the first week of September.\u00a0 Hopefully there won&#8217;t be a last-minute heat wave like <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/09\/05\/syrah-harvest\/\">last year<\/a>, which raisined a lot of the grapes before we could pick them for wine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll need to start thinking about what supplies I&#8217;ll need for harvest and crush, I should order them soon so that they are here when I need them.\u00a0 In the meantime, to prepare for harvest day, I bottled one bottle of the 2009 vintage to have when we&#8217;re done picking.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bottle the rest soon, I just need corks.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1593\" href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/08\/06\/getting-ready-for-syrah-harvest\/img_0011\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1596\" href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/08\/06\/getting-ready-for-syrah-harvest\/bottled-syrah-2009\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1596\" title=\"Bottled syrah 2009\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bottled-syrah-2009-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bottled-syrah-2009-375x500.jpg 375w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bottled-syrah-2009-600x800.jpg 600w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bottled-syrah-2009.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took the bottom of a topper bottle to taste, so probably not the best representation of the wine, but it&#8217;s still pretty good.\u00a0 Good oak on the nose, with aromas and flavors candied fruits and light spice.\u00a0 This sample was not clear, but the wine I pulled off for the bottle was very clear.\u00a0 Looking forward to the 2010 harvest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from Mike Hoffman that the syrah started veraison and harvest should be around the first week of September.\u00a0 Hopefully there won&#8217;t be a last-minute heat wave like last year, which raisined a lot of the grapes before we could pick them for wine. I&#8217;ll need to start thinking about what [&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":[11,60,61,4,62,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}