{"id":2210,"date":"2011-06-25T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2011-07-31T06:28:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:28:32","slug":"oak-trials-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/oak-trials-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Trials Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2214\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/oak-trials-experiment\/oak-trials-in-primary-fermentors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2214 aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" title=\"oak trials in primary fermentors\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oak-trials-in-primary-fermentors-500x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oak-trials-in-primary-fermentors-500x373.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oak-trials-in-primary-fermentors.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timswineblog.com\/\">Tim Vandergrift&#8217;s<\/a> Hands-On oak trials at the Winemaker Magazine Conference in Santa Barbara to set up my own set of oak trials.\u00a0 I decided to just get a basic chardonnay kit, the Winexpert Vintners&#8217; Reserve Chardonnay.\u00a0 This kit does come with a small pack of oak, but I pulled it out.\u00a0 My set up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>#1: unoaked control<\/p>\n<p>#2: prefermentation American oak 10 g\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>#3: prefermentation French oak 10 g\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>#4: post fermentation American oak 5 g\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>#5: post fermentation French oak 5 g\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>#6: post fermentation American oak 10 g\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>#7: post fermentation French oak 10 g\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be using my own oak chips for the experiment; one variable I&#8217;m not happy about is that my French oak is a medium toast, but the American oak is untoasted.\u00a0 I set up 2 wine kits, one I made as one batch and left out any oak, to be split up into 6-one gallon batches for post-oaking later.\u00a0 The second kit I made up and split to 2-3 gallon batches before sprinkling on the yeast, which I split over the 2 split batches.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want a ton of oak trial wine, so that&#8217;s why I decided to split it up this way.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racked<\/a> the wines out of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/primary-primary-fermentation\/\">primary fermentation<\/a> today at day 6, the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/specific-gravity-sg\/\">specific gravity<\/a> is already at 0.994 for all batches.\u00a0 I will <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/stabilized-stabilizing\/\">stabilize<\/a> and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/clearing-cleared-clarification\/\">clear<\/a> the unoaked batch as one batch, then rack out to individual 1-gallon batches about a week after that to make things a little easier.\u00a0 I&#8217;m planning to leave the chips in for 4 weeks, then bottling all of the wines.\u00a0 I have been debating how long the post-oak should stay in for this trial, but from my past experience 4 weeks seems to be a reasonable amount of time;\u00a0 however, then it is a longer time than the preoak, which is inevitable anyway.\u00a0 Not a perfectly controlled experiment, but it should yield results as interesting as Tim&#8217;s experiment.\u00a0 They should all have at least a month before I open any for taste testing.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2215\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/oak-trials-experiment\/first-racking-oak-trials\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2215\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"first racking oak trials\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/first-racking-oak-trials-500x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/first-racking-oak-trials-500x373.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/first-racking-oak-trials.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by Tim Vandergrift&#8217;s Hands-On oak trials at the Winemaker Magazine Conference in Santa Barbara to set up my own set of oak trials.\u00a0 I decided to just get a basic chardonnay kit, the Winexpert Vintners&#8217; Reserve Chardonnay.\u00a0 This kit does come with a small pack of oak, but I pulled it out.\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":[124,45,128,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}