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It was time to pump off the cleared<\/a> wine into a clean trash can for inoculation of the MLB.\u00a0 My hubby was nice enough to help me, since wrangling the wine pump could get a little hairy;\u00a0 both hoses need to be held under the wine, while plugging in the pump and sucking air through it to prime it.\u00a0 After plugging it in, he said, \u201cdo you want me to start it?\u201d meaning priming it, and I said, \u201cno, I\u2019ve gotten good at this.\u201d\u00a0 And I think I knew at that point that I jinxed myself, but it was way too late.\u00a0 I blew out all of the air in my lungs, then drew in air through the tubing \u2013 way too efficiently \u2013 it came spurting out and I got 2 lungfuls of wine, plus wine all over myself including hair and yes, WHITE t-shirt, and also into hubby\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 Lovely spatters of wine all over the floor and the cabinets.\u00a0 Super.<\/p>\n But, the pump did a great job.\u00a0 The wine was transferred in no time.\u00a0 I fired up the malolactic bacteria<\/a> VP41 with some acti-ML, and while waiting for that to stew I wiped down the cabinets and major puddles of primitivo on the floor.\u00a0 Since I knew what the wine felt like in my lungs, I thought I should also give it a proper taste.\u00a0 Really good fruit, with good acidity.\u00a0 With some oak, this is going to be great!<\/p>\n When the bacterial soup was ready, I dumped it into the can o\u2019 wine and stirred it in well.\u00a0 Then we pumped again, and this time I let my hubby start the wine flowing.\u00a0 We transferred the wine to 4 6-gallon better bottles, with some head space.\u00a0 I remembered last year that the primary<\/a> wasn\u2019t quite done after pressing, and it backflowed into the airlock.\u00a0 I did put a layer of CO2 over the top of each carboy, then put airlocks on them and transferred them to the shower.<\/p>\n Half an hour later, I had showered and hubby cleaned the kitchen floor, and it was like nothing had happened \u2013 except the persistant burning in my throat and lungs \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was time to pump off the cleared wine into a clean trash can for inoculation of the MLB.\u00a0 My hubby was nice enough to help me, since wrangling the wine pump could get a little hairy;\u00a0 both hoses need to be held under the wine, while plugging in the pump and sucking air through […]<\/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":[33,4,68,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_0004\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_0004.JPG\" "\\"IMG_0004\\"")
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