{"id":696,"date":"2009-10-13T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:11:46","slug":"pumping-merlot-and-picking-up-the-petite-sirah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/10\/13\/pumping-merlot-and-picking-up-the-petite-sirah\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumping Merlot and Picking up the Petite Sirah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-697\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"IMG_0005\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_00052.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0005\" width=\"556\" height=\"415\" \/>Today we pick up the Petite Sirah grapes from Chris van Alyea at his new digs up in San Marcos.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the grapes arrived later than expected, although it&#8217;s not too bad, Paul and I had a lot to do before we head up to get them.\u00a0 We spent about 4 hours <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racking<\/a> the merlot off of the gross <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/lees\/\">lees<\/a> and then into our barrel, then we had to transport Paul&#8217;s juice to his house and pump it into his barrels there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We still ended up getting to the winery just as the first lug of destemmed petite sirah was done.\u00a0 The grapes looked great:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-699\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"IMG_0006\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0006.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0006\" width=\"499\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0006.JPG 2048w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0006-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0006-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>Each lug is approximately 1000 pounds of grapes.\u00a0 The lugs got dumped into the shiny new destemmer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-700\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"IMG_0012\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0012.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0012\" width=\"496\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0012.JPG 2048w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0012-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0012-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/>We added dry ice to keep it cold, and scooped out our portion from the lugs into our trash cans.\u00a0 The grapes had a funny greenish foam, but Chris said not to worry about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-701\" title=\"IMG_0010\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0010.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0010\" width=\"443\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0010.JPG 2048w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0010-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0010-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The trash cans were loaded into the truck with a lift, and I called my hubby to meet us at the office &#8220;winery&#8221; to help unload.\u00a0 It was a long day, but any day spent winemaking is a good day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-702\" title=\"IMG_0013\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0013.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0013\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0013.JPG 2048w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0013-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_0013-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we pick up the Petite Sirah grapes from Chris van Alyea at his new digs up in San Marcos.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the grapes arrived later than expected, although it&#8217;s not too bad, Paul and I had a lot to do before we head up to get them.\u00a0 We spent about 4 hours racking the merlot [&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":[33,4,32,72,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}