{"id":410,"date":"2009-06-09T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-04-23T06:02:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:02:26","slug":"battonnage-on-sauv-blanc-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/06\/09\/battonnage-on-sauv-blanc-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Battonage on Sauv Blanc Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-411 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 4px 6px;\" title=\"SB battonage\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SB-battonage.JPG\" alt=\"SB battonage\" width=\"253\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SB-battonage.JPG 480w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SB-battonage-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>I\u2019ve been wanting to try some <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/battonage\/\">battonage<\/a> on a wine kit for a while, since I first read about the technique.\u00a0 <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/battonage\/\">Battonage<\/a> basically involves leaving the wine on the fine <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/lees\/\">lees<\/a> for an extended period of time, and stirring the lees up every few days to extract additional amino acids and mannoproteins from the yeast.\u00a0 The result is a \u201ccreamy\u201d mouthfeel, which I like on occasion.\u00a0 I decided to try this on a sauvignon blanc kit, since we really liked the basic sauv blanc kit from winexpert that I made last year.\u00a0 Tim Vandergrift, the technical services manager for Winexpert, gave instructions for doing battonage on wine kits.\u00a0 The kit is made up as instructed, up to the first <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racking<\/a> step.\u00a0 The <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/fining-agents\/\">fining<\/a> and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/stabilized-stabilizing\/\">stabilizing<\/a> step is delayed, and instead a quarter teaspoon of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">Kmeta<\/a> is added to the wine.\u00a0 The wine is then stirred up with a spoon so that all of the yeast sediment is put into suspension and the wine becomes cloudy.\u00a0 The wine is stirred every 3 or 4 days for a total of 4 weeks.\u00a0 Then the wine is allowed to settle for another 2 weeks, and racked off to a clean carboy.\u00a0 Then the instructions are followed again, starting with stabilizing and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/clearing-cleared-clarification\/\">clearing<\/a> for my kit.\u00a0 It will be very interesting to see if\/how this treatment affects the wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been wanting to try some battonage on a wine kit for a while, since I first read about the technique.\u00a0 Battonage basically involves leaving the wine on the fine lees for an extended period of time, and stirring the lees up every few days to extract additional amino acids and mannoproteins from the yeast.\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":[75,56,4,31,5,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}