{"id":2079,"date":"2011-04-29T03:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2011-05-06T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T21:31:16","slug":"unhappy-cabernet-sauvignon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/04\/29\/unhappy-cabernet-sauvignon\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy Cabernet Sauvignon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the bottling party, I was talking with Paul about getting some of his Cabernet Sauvignon (also from Lambert Bridge Vineyard in Sonoma) to make a Paraduxx-like blend with my <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/10\/03\/syrah-primitivo-and-merlot-oh-my\/\">merlot <\/a>and <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/finally-bottling-primitivo\/\">primitivo<\/a>.\u00a0 He mentioned he had several gallons of cabernet that seemed to have a <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/va-volatile-acidity\/\">VA <\/a>problem.\u00a0 I hate to dump wine without trying to save it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2080\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/04\/29\/unhappy-cabernet-sauvignon\/cab-in-need-of-help\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2080 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"Cab in need of help\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cab-in-need-of-help-500x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cab-in-need-of-help-500x373.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cab-in-need-of-help.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were about 13 liter water bottles full of the flawed wine.\u00a0 I splash-poured them into two 5-gallon Better Bottles and checked the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/free-so2\/\">free SO2<\/a> levels with my handy <a href=\"http:\/\/vinmetrica.com\/\">Vinmetrica SC-100<\/a>.\u00a0 Paul confirmed what the SC-100 told me, this wine had NO sulfite in it.\u00a0 So, I dosed it up with some <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">Kmeta<\/a>, which sometimes will help get rid of flaws like acetylaldehyde, which seemed to be the main problem.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let it sit for a while then recheck the free SO2 levels and give it a smell and taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the bottling party, I was talking with Paul about getting some of his Cabernet Sauvignon (also from Lambert Bridge Vineyard in Sonoma) to make a Paraduxx-like blend with my merlot and primitivo.\u00a0 He mentioned he had several gallons of cabernet that seemed to have a VA problem.\u00a0 I hate to dump wine without trying [&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":[114,42,115,33,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"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=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}