{"id":354,"date":"2009-03-22T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:48:49","slug":"racking-the-muller-thurgau-and-barolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/03\/22\/racking-the-muller-thurgau-and-barolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Racking the Muller-Thurgau and Barolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claassen.net\/gallery2\/v\/us\/Hobbies\/brewing\/mullerthurgau\/IMG_0011.JPG.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-355  alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px 4px;\" title=\"MT\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MT.JPG\" alt=\"MT\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MT.JPG 480w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MT-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Time to <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">rack<\/a> the Muller-thurgau and barolo.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I got a little overzealous with the stirring of the elderflower tea bags in the MT, and punctured most of them.\u00a0 Now there are cute little flowers floating all over the wine.\u00a0 This became a problem as I was racking, the flowers were small enough to be carried through the racking cane, and eventually started clogging it up.\u00a0 I stopped the flow and wrapped cheesecloth around the bottom of the racking cane and secured it with a sanitized rubber band.\u00a0 That worked!\u00a0 But, I still have a few flowers carried over, so I put a note on top of the carboy so I don\u2019t transfer them over at the next racking, too.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting pretty good at racking apparently, I very often end up with 6 gallons-plus in volume after the first transfer.\u00a0 I ended up with about 600 mL overflow, which I put into a 1 L bottle to add at the next racking.<\/p>\n<p>The Barolo racking was more straightforward, nothing unusual to report.\u00a0 The <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/stabilized-stabilizing\/\">stabilizing<\/a>\/<a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/clearing-cleared-clarification\/\">clearing<\/a> agents were also added and the wine was \u201cstirred vigorously\u201d with my drill-driven wine whip.\u00a0 The overflow was added in, and I actually need to top a little more, so I popped a bottle of 2006 Blackstone merlot to use to top it up.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very decent under-$10 merlot that I bought just for topping up my wines this season.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ll let the wine sit a little longer than the instructions say, I\u2019ll probably do a few extra rackings before bottling in 6 months or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to rack the Muller-thurgau and barolo.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I got a little overzealous with the stirring of the elderflower tea bags in the MT, and punctured most of them.\u00a0 Now there are cute little flowers floating all over the wine.\u00a0 This became a problem as I was racking, the flowers were small enough to be [&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":[47,4,46,8,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}