{"id":47,"date":"2007-06-12T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T15:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/my-smallest-batch-a-500-ml-leon-millot-pinot-noir-blend\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T15:35:32","slug":"my-smallest-batch-a-500-ml-leon-millot-pinot-noir-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/my-smallest-batch-a-500-ml-leon-millot-pinot-noir-blend\/","title":{"rendered":"My Smallest Batch: A 500 ml Leon Millot &#8211; Pinot Noir blend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/20070611 - smallest batch of wine.jpg\" alt=\"500 ml Grolsch bottle in front of my hand, to show scale, contains my smallest batch, a blend of Pinot Noir and Leon Millot\" title=\"My Smallest Batch: 2006 Leon Pinot\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Last year, my bonsai vineyard offered up a disappointing 4 lb (1.8 kg) of grapes, 2 lb Pinot Noir and 2 lb Leon Millot. I was <em>so<\/em> looking forward to making wine from my own grapes, but what was I to do with 4 lb? Make wine anyway! I mashed up the grapes by hand, added pectic enzyme, cold soaked for eight hours, then pitched the yeast. I &#8220;pressed&#8221; seven days later in a cheesecloth lined colander. A month later, I decanted into this 500 ml Grolsch bottle. Today, seven months later, it&#8217;s still in the Grolsch bottle. With an ordinary batch of wine, I might start opening bottles every so often to see how it was coming along. Once I thought it was hitting it&#8217;s stride, I&#8217;d start serving it regularly. With this batch, I&#8217;m thinking about giving it two years. That means opening my Puget Sound grown &#8220;2006 Leon Pinot&#8221; in late fall 2008. I think I&#8217;ll keep the guest list short \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, my bonsai vineyard offered up a disappointing 4 lb (1.8 kg) of grapes, 2 lb Pinot Noir and 2 lb Leon Millot. I was so looking forward to making wine from my own grapes, but what was I to do with 4 lb? Make wine anyway! I mashed up the grapes by hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enology","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}