{"id":198,"date":"2008-07-14T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/commercial-cherry-wine\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T13:00:11","slug":"commercial-cherry-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/commercial-cherry-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Cherry Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to get the hang of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/cherry-wine-recipe\/\">cherry wine<\/a>, but while I tinker and tweak I might be able to buy some from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenspoonvineyard.com\">Ten Spoon Vineyard<\/a>. This Montana winery uses  Lambert cherries from Flathead Lake to make a dry red wine. I always get excited when I find the pros making &#8220;fruit wine.&#8221; I got some great advice on making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/rhubarb-wine-recipe\/\">rhubarb wine<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynfredwinery.blogspot.com\/\">the Lynfred Winery<\/a>, and I&#8217;m hoping the people at Ten Spoon will share some tidbits.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t looked in on last year&#8217;s cherry wine since July, when I noticed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/cherry-wine-recipe-sugar-and-acid\/\">problem with the acidity<\/a>. The total acidity (TA) was too high, which I would ordinarily address by neutralizing some of it. The pH was high as well, and that made my job tougher. If I went ahead and neutralized some of the acid to get the TA down, I would also be raising the already-too-high pH. So my thought was to leave the acid alone and balance it with sugar. Maybe I can get some advice on this &#8211; and find out if any of the shops around here carry Ten Spoon&#8217;s cherry wine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to get the hang of cherry wine, but while I tinker and tweak I might be able to buy some from the Ten Spoon Vineyard. This Montana winery uses Lambert cherries from Flathead Lake to make a dry red wine. I always get excited when I find the pros making &#8220;fruit wine.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-wine","category-commercial-wine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}