{"id":544,"date":"2013-12-30T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T13:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2013-12-30T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:32:40","slug":"california-connoisseur-pinot-chardonnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/california-connoisseur-pinot-chardonnay\/","title":{"rendered":"California Connoisseur Pinot Chardonnay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-546\" alt=\"500D_1982\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1982-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1982-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1982-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1982.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Father Christmas got me this &#8220;4 week&#8221; wine kit.\u00a0 It has been a toss up about whether I make this or beer, but since I drink beer relatively slowly when it is not Christmas, and would not have enough &#8220;nice&#8221; bottles to put it in, I am going to start with the wine.\u00a0 It makes about four demijohns full, and with the new ones from David, I have a ready made storage method.\u00a0 If I need demijohns freed up I can put one demijohn in to seven wine bottles.\u00a0 The instructions say leave the water to stand for 24 hours to remove chlorine.\u00a0 We have a filter for that, but I will still leave it to stand until after lunch.\u00a0 This photo shows me filling up using my extra useful extra thick hose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-545\" alt=\"500D_1981\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1981-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1981-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1981-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/500D_1981.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ingredients include oak chippings, but my wife doesn&#8217;t like oaked wine and I&#8217;ll leave them out.\u00a0 Apparently this is drinkable in four weeks, so maybe we&#8217;ll be using it to celebrate three years back from New Zealand.\u00a0 How time flies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Christmas got me this &#8220;4 week&#8221; wine kit.\u00a0 It has been a toss up about whether I make this or beer, but since I drink beer relatively slowly when it is not Christmas, and would not have enough &#8220;nice&#8221; bottles to put it in, I am going to start with the wine.\u00a0 It makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/california-connoisseur-pinot-chardonnay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Connoisseur Pinot Chardonnay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-california-connoisseur-2013-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}