{"id":142,"date":"2007-12-14T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/commercial-cranberry-wine\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:00:57","slug":"commercial-cranberry-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/commercial-cranberry-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Cranberry Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympiccellars.com\/\">commercial winery<\/a> in Washington made a cranberry wine. They were faced with the same high acidity that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/know-your-ingredients-cranberries\/\">discussed<\/a> a few days ago, and we both used a similar approach to deal with it. They blended with Chardonnay (20% cranberry and 80% Chardonnay), while I &#8220;blended&#8221; with water (25% cranberry and 75% water). I considered blending with another fruit, but I want my first wine to be just cranberry. The water, which contributes virtually no acidity, allows me to squeeze in a little more cranberry, and I feel a bit better calling the result &#8220;cranberry wine.&#8221; Once I get that down and find out what cranberry wine tastes like, I can try different blends by substituting other fruit for the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that a commercial winery in Washington made a cranberry wine. They were faced with the same high acidity that I discussed a few days ago, and we both used a similar approach to deal with it. They blended with Chardonnay (20% cranberry and 80% Chardonnay), while I &#8220;blended&#8221; with water (25% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-wine","category-cranberry-wine","category-winemaking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}