{"id":13,"date":"2013-07-05T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/?p=13"},"modified":"2013-08-14T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T12:44:41","slug":"gewurztraminer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/2013\/07\/05\/gewurztraminer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gewurztraminer – Must Prod 03 Oct 2012<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

So…. I haven’t been keeping up with this Blog very well. Cheryl and I have tried two different kits. Both turned out fairly well. We filtered both using\u00a0Buon Vino MiniJet<\/a>. The filtering really worked well…. but maybe too well. It seems to have taken some of the fruity flavor out of the wine…. or replaced it with a paper taste. I will continue to work at flavor issue when filtering.<\/p>\n

For this kit, we are going to try a couple of different things. This kit will be the\u00a0Reserve Du Chateau 6 Week Wine Kit, German Gewurztraminer, 55-Pound Container<\/a>\u00a0purchased from Amazon. This kit is a concentrate, but doe not need to have any water added to the juice. When we rack this wine for clarification and age, we will use a 5 Gal carboy instead of the normal 6-gal we had been using. This means that we will not need to add water, but we may lose a little wine. I believe that this will make a better quality wine. The kit should be here on Saturday<\/p>\n

7\/13\/2013<\/strong> Started the wine on this day.
\nAlthough we used the above kit, we modified by using a different yeast Red Star C\u00f4te des Blancs<\/em>. After aprox 12 hours we have positive indication of fermentation. I will update at the next step.<\/p>\n

S.G. 1.080
\nTemp 76\u00b0<\/p>\n

7\/26\/2013\u00a0<\/strong>Moved wine into secondary fermentation. Took a little taste sample and we were pleased with how it is progressing.<\/p>\n

S.G. 0.994<\/p>\n

8\/3\/2013 \u00a0<\/strong>Degassing and clearing of wine. \u00a0Moving over to a 5 gallon carboy to ensure oxygen content is minimum. \u00a0Took a small sample and discovered a bit of a vinegar taste. \u00a0We are hoping this will clear up in this step. \u00a0The S.G. reading today was 0.990 which indicates a fairly dry wine if everything works out as planned. \u00a0We are planning on leaving the wine in the clearing process for a week to 2 weeks since we have stabilized it.<\/p>\n

S.G. 0.990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So…. I haven’t been keeping up with this Blog very well. Cheryl and I have tried two different kits. Both turned out fairly well. We filtered both using\u00a0Buon Vino MiniJet. The filtering really worked well…. but maybe too well. It seems to have taken some of the fruity flavor out of the wine…. or replaced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gewurztraminer","category-wine-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumosvalley.net\/lvblog\/wine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}