{"id":1735,"date":"2010-09-13T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2010-09-13T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:43:38","slug":"pressing-the-2010-syrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/09\/13\/pressing-the-2010-syrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressing the 2010 Syrah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our 2010 Syrah<\/a> from Live Oak Vineyard<\/a> in Fallbrook fermented fast, and the brix were below 5 by the next week.\u00a0 We decided to go ahead and press<\/a> out the wine before it was completely dry so that we could do it on a weekend day. We took a quick brix test and an obligatory taste before we started pressing.<\/p>\n

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The brix were at 1, 3, and 0 in the three cans.\u00a0 Definitely alright to go ahead with pressing!\u00a0 We got everything set up, and had an early casualty — apparently if you grab the metal cage of the press the wrong way, it cuts your finger like a knife.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t have the full crew that we usually have, and so we forgot several details about setting up the press.\u00a0 First, we forgot to put the bag over the grate before<\/em> we started putting grapes into the press, and so juice splattered everywhere until we remembered.\u00a0 Also, we forgot to attach a hose to the release valve, and water spewed all over the table the press was sitting on.\u00a0 At least we did think to keep the water from getting into our freshly-pressed wine, and eventually remembered to put a hose there.\u00a0 And, we forgot to stop seeds from dumping into the press when we emptied out the last of the must into the press.\u00a0 But, it all worked out and we got it all pressed in a decent amount of time.<\/p>\n

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Free run juice -- running all over the table because we forgot the cover!<\/p><\/div>\n

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When we were done we had about 40-50 gallons of pressed wine, and stains all over various parts of our clothes and body.\u00a0 The wine will sit in the trash cans for a few days to let the gross lees<\/a> settle out before we rack<\/a> the wine into our new 50-gallon Flextank<\/a> (plus, it hasn’t arrived yet!). After that we add malolactic bacteria<\/a> and wait for about 3-6 weeks for MLF<\/a> to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our 2010 Syrah from Live Oak Vineyard in Fallbrook fermented fast, and the brix were below 5 by the next week.\u00a0 We decided to go ahead and press out the wine before it was completely dry so that we could do it on a weekend day. We took a quick brix test and an obligatory […]<\/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":[60,79,37,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735"}],"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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}