{"id":424,"date":"2009-07-25T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-09-29T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T04:44:19","slug":"cellar-craft-lodi-old-vine-zin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/07\/25\/cellar-craft-lodi-old-vine-zin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellar Craft Lodi Old Vine Zin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-426\" style=\"margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"IMG_0054\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0054.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0054\" width=\"288\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0054.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0054-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I finished bottling the \u201cBahia Belle\u201d blend and Merlot B (\u201cEmbarcadero\u201d merlot) today.\u00a0 Then I finally started another \u201ceasy drinker\u201d red kit that I\u2019ve been excited about, a Cellar Craft Lodi Old Zinfandel.\u00a0 I wanted a good, easy house zin to have around for grilling and whatnot, so I did a lot of research on winepress.us to see what other people thought were a good pick.<\/p>\n<p>I was excited to see the crushed grape pack included with the kit.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I read that this kit had it, but I forgot.\u00a0 The instructions said to warm up the crushed grapes and then \u201cpour\u201d (I squeezed) them into the mesh bag, included with the kit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-427\" title=\"raisins\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/raisins.JPG\" alt=\"raisins\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/raisins.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/raisins-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/> So, I get to stir this every day for the next week to extract all of the goodness out of the grape mess.\u00a0 As I was finishing up, I was pushing the airlock into the hole in the lid of the bucket, and the black gasket around the hole fell into the bucket.\u00a0 You would think something rubber might float, but no, it fell to the bottom.\u00a0 So, I had to plug this one with cotton.\u00a0 I hope the ants don\u2019t find the shower, they\u2019ve been a problem lately.\u00a0 At least it should be a little easier to pull the lid off to stir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished bottling the \u201cBahia Belle\u201d blend and Merlot B (\u201cEmbarcadero\u201d merlot) today.\u00a0 Then I finally started another \u201ceasy drinker\u201d red kit that I\u2019ve been excited about, a Cellar Craft Lodi Old Zinfandel.\u00a0 I wanted a good, easy house zin to have around for grilling and whatnot, so I did a lot of research on [&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":[52,4,49,5,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}