{"id":3824,"date":"2021-04-02T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:13:00","slug":"headspace-in-your-wine-vessel-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/headspace-in-your-wine-vessel-what-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Headspace in Your Wine Vessel &#8211; What does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about headspace. Extra headspace in your wine storage vessel leads to oxidation. Oxidation leads to wine faults such as &#8211; disappearance of fruit flavors, characteristics like bruised-apple take over, the color starts to brown, and brettanomyces or volatile acidity can start to develop.<\/p>\n<p>However, not all oxidation is bad. If done carefully a little micro-oxidation can give help soften your red wine wine and give it complexity. Also, some wine styles require excessive oxidation like Madera.<\/p>\n<p>But for most wines we want to avoid any excessive oxidation. So how to we do that? Below are a few tips to help avoid oxidation in your wine.<\/p>\n<p>1. Consistently check your aging vessels and make sure they have no headspace and are topped off<br \/>\n2. Limit how much air you wine is exposed to during racking, pump overs, and bottling<br \/>\n3. Keep track of and update your SO2 levels regularly<br \/>\n4. Double check tank gaskets for any leaks before use<br \/>\n5. Use quality corks when bottling wine<\/p>\n<p>We hope these tips help! \ud83c\udf47\ud83c\udf77\ud83e\udd42 Looking forward to working with you all this Spring Winemaking Season. Have you ordered your Spring Winemaking Supplies yet? Email us at <span style=\"color: #993366;\">sales@juicegrape.com<\/span> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Winemaking Faults visit our sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winemakinginstructions.com\/store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>WinemakingInstructions.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about headspace. Extra headspace in your wine storage vessel leads to oxidation. Oxidation leads to wine faults such as &#8211; disappearance of fruit flavors, characteristics like bruised-apple take over, the color starts to brown, and brettanomyces or volatile acidity can start to develop. However, not all oxidation is bad. If done carefully a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3825,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1380,1376,328,1377,594,355,98,1298,1378,1379,293,10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/headspace.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZM5f-ZG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824"}],"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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}