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Another full day of wine racking<\/a> and shuffling!\u00a0 Dave sent me an email that the merlot<\/a> barrel needed to be topped, so first I racked off the smaller bottles of merlot and took 2 cleared<\/a> bottles to the office winery to top off the barrel.\u00a0 I thought I had enough to top off and leave some for later topping, but in fact I used up all the extra wine I brought, it was just enough.<\/p>\n It was also time to check the MLF<\/a> progression on the petite sirah<\/a>.\u00a0 Happily, it was complete!<\/p>\n I stirred some Kmeta<\/a> into the barrel, and then it needed a decent amount of topping wine.\u00a0 I decided it was a good idea to just pour the wine out of the carboy into the barrel.\u00a0 It was going fine until my cell phone started buzzing in my pocket ….<\/p>\n Oops!!!<\/p>\n I packed the rest of the PS in carboys into the car to take home.\u00a0 I thought I had them secured pretty well, but one popped cork on the ride.\u00a0 Luckily though, no wine spilled out of any of them.<\/p>\n Once I got them home, I racked the wine off of the gross lees<\/a>, stirred in Kmeta, and added french oak to the carboys.\u00a0 The syrah<\/a> also needed oak, so those carboys were racked and oak added to each bottle.\u00a0 The shower is full again — and I didn’t even rack all of the merlot or any of the primitivo<\/a>!<\/p>\n Another full day of wine racking and shuffling!\u00a0 Dave sent me an email that the merlot barrel needed to be topped, so first I racked off the smaller bottles of merlot and took 2 cleared bottles to the office winery to top off the barrel.\u00a0 I thought I had enough to top off and leave […]<\/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":[76,33,4,32,72,8,62,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"PS](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PS-malic-acid-test.JPG\" "\\"PS")
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