{"id":402,"date":"2009-06-15T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:43:50","slug":"yakima-synergy-and-alsatian-rielsing-bottling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/06\/15\/yakima-synergy-and-alsatian-rielsing-bottling\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Synergy and Alsatian Riesling Bottling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-403\" style=\"margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"YS glass\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/YS-glass.JPG\" alt=\"YS glass\" width=\"494\" height=\"368\" \/>The Yakima Synergy is clear enough that I\u2019m not going to filter it for bottling.\u00a0 It came out great!\u00a0 I did leave about 700 mL at the bottom of the carboy that had some sediment and poured it off into a separate bottle to <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/clearing-cleared-clarification\/\">clear<\/a> a little more.\u00a0 Tasting notes: Very faint nose of apricots and blossoms. Very clear, pale gold in color. Flavors a little harsh right now, with acidic edge that leaves the tongue feeling like sandpaper. This one will need a lot of cellar time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-404\" title=\"IMG_0139\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0139.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0139\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0139.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0139-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Riesling, however, did need some filtering.\u00a0 It just wasn\u2019t clear, but I didn\u2019t want to wait to let it clear with bulk aging \u2013 we\u2019re running out of summer whites!\u00a0 I set up a 1 micron inline filter, but the last 6 bottles did not seem to filter completely.\u00a0 I actually uncorked these and tried to refilter, but the gunk would not filter out.\u00a0 Oh well, another lot of wine to keep for home drinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima Synergy is clear enough that I\u2019m not going to filter it for bottling.\u00a0 It came out great!\u00a0 I did leave about 700 mL at the bottom of the carboy that had some sediment and poured it off into a separate bottle to clear a little more.\u00a0 Tasting notes: Very faint nose of apricots [&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":[11,13,4,21,30,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}