{"id":2780,"date":"2007-05-03T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/rhubarb-wine\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:07:23","slug":"rhubarb-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/rhubarb-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was offered my first taste of <a title=\"Rhubarb Wine Recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/rhubarb-wine-recipe\/\">rhubarb wine<\/a>. I had never sampled non-grape wine (country wine) before, but my thoughts changed from &#8220;is this a joke?&#8221; to &#8220;how much of this have you got?&#8221; with the first sip. I have since planted <a title=\"Know Your Ingredients: Rhubarb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/know-your-ingredients-rhubarb\/\">rhubarb<\/a> in my garden, and I&#8217;ve been making wine from it for two years. I owe a lot to the Hutterite colony in Montana, they still make that terrific wine, for their inspiration and generous advice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Rhubarb stalks on the cutting board - 4\/25\/07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/pic\/20070425%20-%20002%20-%20021%20-%20harvesting%20rhubarb%20edit%20crop%20400x382.jpg\" alt=\"Rhubarb stalks on the cutting board - 4\/25\/07\" width=\"382\" height=\"400\" ><\/p>\n<p>The first harvest of 2007 yielded 10 oz (about 275 grams), and I expect to harvest every month through August. I discard the leaves, chop up the stalks and freeze them. Once I&#8217;ve gathered the entire harvest (last year&#8217;s was 4lb or about 1.8 kg), I&#8217;ll begin work on my third vintage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts changed from &#8220;is this a joke?&#8221; to &#8220;how much of this have you got?&#8221; with the first sip of rhubarb wine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,41],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-rhubarb-wine","category-winemaking","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}