{"id":706,"date":"2009-10-18T21:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:35:37","slug":"wine-wrangling-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/10\/18\/wine-wrangling-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Wrangling Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots to do this weekend!\u00a0 Of course, there were 2 trips to the office winery to punch down the newly pitched Petite Sirah.\u00a0 By the evening, the temp was up to 78 degrees (in an air conditioned room) and there were serious caps on all of the buckets.\u00a0 Then I had to deal with trying to restart the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">MLF<\/a> in the syrah at home.\u00a0 I brought home the little bit of ELIOS <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-bacteria-mlb\/\">malolactic bacteria<\/a> and rehydrated it in warm water with Acti-ML for about 15 minutes.\u00a0 I then added about 100 mL merlot from the barrel that we just inoculated as a source of active ELIOS culture, and let that sit for another 15 minutes.\u00a0 That mixture got split into the 2 carboys of syrah and stirred well.<\/p>\n<p>I ran out of malic acid tests (oops), but since the MLF on the primitivo was almost done last weekend, I went ahead and assumed that it was ready to <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">rack<\/a> and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">sulfite<\/a>.\u00a0 Since I only had one spare carboy at this point, I had to rack out the wine then clean the better bottle before I could rack the next bottle.\u00a0 That made it take a little longer than it should have, but when I was done I had 3 6-gallon carboys and a 3-gallon carboy nicely topped.\u00a0 I added 3 ounces of medium toast oak cubes per 6 gallons, with 2 6-gallon bottles getting French oak and the remaining 6-gallon and 3-gallon getting American oak.\u00a0 This should give me a nice balance of oak in the final blend.\u00a0 At least the primitivo is ready to rest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots to do this weekend!\u00a0 Of course, there were 2 trips to the office winery to punch down the newly pitched Petite Sirah.\u00a0 By the evening, the temp was up to 78 degrees (in an air conditioned room) and there were serious caps on all of the buckets.\u00a0 Then I had to deal with trying [&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":[33,4,40,41,72,68,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}