{"id":123,"date":"2014-11-14T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:40:54","slug":"bring-on-the-bordeaux-a-home-winemaking-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/bring-on-the-bordeaux-a-home-winemaking-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring On The Bordeaux! &#8211; A Home Winemaking Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This year we are making Bordeaux Blends. One blend is made up of<em>\u00a068% Cabernet Sauvignon from Oakville, 14% Petite Verdot from Atlas Peak, and 18% Merlot from Caneros, Napa Valley<\/em>. \u00a0This blend costs more than my first our first cars so we are praying we don&#8217;t screw them up. Lol<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We crushed the grapes on 10\/22. It was a deep, dark, and beautiful color purple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/threadsandvino.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/dsc07912.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We added about 3.5 tsp of postassium meta-bisulfite to keep the must from fermenting and 50mL of Color Pro to bring out even more color. We left the must in a cold soak for 6 days. Keeping the must in a cold soak helps extract &#8220;the good stuff&#8221; &#8211; all the vivacious flavors and color components great Bordeaux&#8217;s posses.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is more information to come! Stop by for the next post updating our wine making process!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Next \u00a0we will be discussing Degrees Brix, Total Acidity, and pH Levels<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Until next time&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cheers ~ CM &amp; FJ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Images via D. Pelletier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we are making Bordeaux Blends. One blend is made up of\u00a068% Cabernet Sauvignon from Oakville, 14% Petite Verdot from Atlas Peak, and 18% Merlot from Caneros, Napa Valley. \u00a0This blend costs more than my first our first cars so we are praying we don&#8217;t screw them up. Lol We crushed the grapes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15,22,21,10,13],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZM5f-1Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}