{"id":257,"date":"2013-12-02T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eweforia.wordpress.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:17:15","slug":"wine-bottling-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wine-bottling-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine-Bottling Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eweforia.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/02\/wine-bottling-day\/100_1786\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-258\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-258 alignleft\" alt=\"100_1786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1786.jpg?w=225\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1786.jpg 1728w, http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1786-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1786-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I bottled 120 bottles of wine from my 2012 harvest. Apple, peach, rhubarb (my favorite) and grape. I drink one glass of wine every night in the winter. In the summer, I drink one bottle of beer (which I also brew&#8211;won 2nd place in the Colorado State Fair one year). I am not a wine connoisseur; I make wine because I enjoy working with my farm&#8217;s produce and also because I can&#8217;t afford to buy the quantity of wine and beer that I drink\u00a0(one glass a night adds up fast!). My wines are &#8220;cottage wines&#8221; made in 4-5 gallon batches in plastic buckets. Using glass carboys would be better, but it would cost a small fortune to buy 8-9 glass carboys, which is generally how many buckets I have going at a time. I like sweet wines, and although my goal is to produce lovely clear liquids, sometimes fruit wines are difficult to clarify. But they taste great!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Wine-bottling day is long and tedious<a href=\"http:\/\/eweforia.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/02\/wine-bottling-day\/100_1783\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259 alignright\" alt=\"100_1783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1783.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1783.jpg 2304w, http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1783-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/100_1783-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>. Most of the time is spent washing buckets and bottles. My kitchen is converted into an assembly line: wash two boxes of bottles and drain; fill each bottle from the bucket; cork the bottles, put the bottles in boxes; repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Wine-making day, which occurs on the day of harvest a year or more before wine-bottling day, is also long and tedious. The fruit has to be juiced and each recipe sized to fit the quantity of juice that you end up with.<\/p>\n<p>The effort of making my own wine pays off every night when I can sit back and enjoy (literally) the fruit of my labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I bottled 120 bottles of wine from my 2012 harvest. Apple, peach, rhubarb (my favorite) and grape. I drink one glass of wine every night in the winter. In the summer, I drink one bottle of beer (which I also brew&#8211;won 2nd place in the Colorado State Fair one year). I am not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}