{"id":2298,"date":"2011-08-10T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:06:46","slug":"oak-trials-into-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/08\/10\/oak-trials-into-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Trials: Into the Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2299\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/08\/10\/oak-trials-into-the-bottle\/p1020886\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2299\" title=\"Bottling day\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1020886-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1020886-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1020886-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>It is finally time to bottle the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/07\/14\/oak-trials-continue\/\">oak trials<\/a> today!\u00a0 I am also bottling the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/07\/13\/bottling-2009-vintage-barrel-wines\/\">2009 Petite Sirah<\/a> that I did egg white <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/fining-agents\/\">fining<\/a> on, so I can compare it to the unfined wine side-by-side.\u00a0 The chardonnays all cleared out really nicely, which is great so I can bottle directly from the individual jugs &#8212; otherwise I&#8217;m going to spend an extra hour just racking everything off.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the great bottling pump I have, I bottled 53 bottles of 2009 &#8220;Cabrillo Bridge&#8221; Petite Sirah and 60 bottles of Chardonnay oak trials in just 3 hours.\u00a0 Too bad the bottling pump doesn&#8217;t also clean up everything &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I tasted a little of the unoaked Chardonnay to see what it&#8217;s like, I haven&#8217;t had this particular<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winexpert.com\/products?a=search&amp;catalogue=3&amp;colour=&amp;variety=Chardonnay&amp;country=&amp;sweetness=&amp;body=&amp;oak=Light&amp;time=&amp;brand=23&amp;x=35&amp;y=10\"> Winexpert Chardonnay kit<\/a> yet.\u00a0 I really, really liked it, it has lots of apple and a nice fresh, round mouthfeel.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to tasting my own oak trials side-by-side!\u00a0 Thanks for the inspiration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timswineblog.com\/\">Tim Vandergrift<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2302\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/08\/10\/oak-trials-into-the-bottle\/p1020890\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2302\" title=\"2011 Curds and Wine Chardonnay Oak Trials\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1020890-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1020890-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1020890-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is finally time to bottle the oak trials today!\u00a0 I am also bottling the 2009 Petite Sirah that I did egg white fining on, so I can compare it to the unfined wine side-by-side.\u00a0 The chardonnays all cleared out really nicely, which is great so I can bottle directly from the individual jugs &#8212; [&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":[11,17,106,108,33,45,128,72,5,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298"}],"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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}