{"id":662,"date":"2014-01-29T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2014-01-29T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:28:10","slug":"storing-the-pinot-chardonnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/storing-the-pinot-chardonnay\/","title":{"rendered":"Storing the Pinot Chardonnay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-663\" alt=\"500D_9826\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/500D_9826.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/500D_9826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/500D_9826-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I syphoned it off in to my carboy-with-tap and decanted it in to four demijohns, two bottles and a massive puddle on the floor when I got frustrated by the tap being so high above the bottom of the carboy and upended it for the last demijohn.\u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n<p>The last one and the two bottles were so vigorously poured they were frothy, so I chucked a campden tablet in to the demijohn and an eighth of a tablet in to the two bottles.<\/p>\n<p>The wine is obviously not clear!\u00a0 The one on the right on the picture above is the wine I made from Waitrose grape juice that I also racked off today for comparison.\u00a0 With the wine in the demijohns it should clarify slowly, but I think I will buy a filter for next time.\u00a0 They are not that expensive (\u00a325) and would make a big difference.\u00a0 Filtering out the yeast would also guarantee fermentation to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The Waitrose one is rather dry, so some sneaky sweetener might be popped in before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I syphoned it off in to my carboy-with-tap and decanted it in to four demijohns, two bottles and a massive puddle on the floor when I got frustrated by the tap being so high above the bottom of the carboy and upended it for the last demijohn.\u00a0 Oops. The last one and the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/storing-the-pinot-chardonnay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Storing the 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":[72,65],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-california-connoisseur-2013-12","tag-waitrose-white-juice-2013-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}