{"id":490,"date":"2009-09-19T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:01:54","slug":"a-pressing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/09\/19\/a-pressing-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pressing Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is unexpected, both the syrah and the primitivo are ready to press this weekend.\u00a0 It would not normally be a problem, except we are going to our friends\u2019 wedding today in Fallbrook (an hour away, but oh so pretty there!).\u00a0 That makes pressing today with the basket press not an option, leaving only one day to press, and pressing 250 pounds will take most of the day.\u00a0 Now I have to decide if I want to risk trying an extended maceration with the primitivo, or go ahead and press it out tomorrow and get the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">malolactic fermentation<\/a> going.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to one of my favorite resources, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winemakermag.com\/store?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=flypage.tpl&amp;product_id=48&amp;category_id=13\">\u201cThe Winemaker\u2019s Answer Book\u201d<\/a> by Alison Crowe.\u00a0 She is the \u201cWine Wizard\u201d writer for <a href=\"http:\/\/winemakermag.com\/\"><em>Winemaker <\/em>magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 So far, every little tedious question I have or decision to make has been in that book.\u00a0 And, it didn\u2019t let me down today, there are several paragraphs dealing with when to press and how to decide to do an extended maceration (besides the fact that you don\u2019t have time to press!).\u00a0 She suggests tasting some of the grapes left in the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/must\/\">must<\/a> to see if they taste green (in which case you should press) or if they taste like they still have some \u201cgoodies\u201d to give back to the wine (and then wait).\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about any goodies, but those grapes definitely taste like bitter crap \u2013 eewww, yuck! \u00a0Looks like we\u2019re pressing tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is unexpected, both the syrah and the primitivo are ready to press this weekend.\u00a0 It would not normally be a problem, except we are going to our friends\u2019 wedding today in Fallbrook (an hour away, but oh so pretty there!).\u00a0 That makes pressing today with the basket press not an option, leaving only one [&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":[28,33,4,37,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}