{"id":7344,"date":"2013-01-01T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T23:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2013-01-01T18:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T23:46:04","slug":"first-wine-of-2013-down-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/first-wine-of-2013-down-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"First Wine of 2013 Down the Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy spent some time in the wine room and came up with a bottle of Petite Sirah. We haven\u2019t had a Petite Sirah in quite awhile and I was anxious to try it. As usual, I pour a bit in my glass and try it before pouring the wine for dinner. The aroma sent up a warning flag. I tasted the wine and another warning flag was raised. Perhaps my tasting was off. So I asked Kathy what she thought. She too thought the wine was faulted.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long to identify the fault. The wine had geranium taint. The aroma and taste reminded me of scented geranium leaves. I buy scented geraniums every year and enjoy the aroma when I brush against the leaves. I also like to use scented geraniums in flower bouquet for the house. However, in a wine, geraniums is not a desired trait. My first introduction to geranium taint came as a result of the very first wine I made in 2008. There was a slight geranium taint to the wine. I noticed it and didn\u2019t care for its influence on the wine. That was just a slight geranium taint. The bottle I opened on New Year\u2019s Day, I poured down the drain. The entire kitchen smells of scented geraniums.<\/p>\n<p>Geranium taint is caused by the addition of sorbate to the wine. The first wine I made was from a kit and there was a packet of sorbate to add to the wine. It was suppose to help stop any yeast that may be alive from fermenting in the bottle. However, since I fermented the wine to dry there wasn\u2019t enough sugar left to make fermentation in the bottle a problem. The addition of the sorbate did create a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this is a one and only wine to be dumped this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"First Wine of 2013 Down the Drain\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7344\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy spent some time in the wine room and came up with a bottle of Petite Sirah. We haven\u2019t had a Petite Sirah in quite awhile and I was anxious to try it. As usual, I pour a bit in my glass and try it before pouring the wine for dinner. The aroma sent up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[268,2781,98],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-fault","tag-geranium-taint","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7345,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions\/7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}