{"id":350,"date":"2016-08-08T01:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2016-08-08T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:12:19","slug":"malolactic-fermentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/malolactic-fermentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Malolactic Fermentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Malolactic Fermentation?<\/h2>\n

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Visitors to the Shadow Run Vineyards and Winery<\/a> Tasting Room often ask about the dozen or so wine barrels stored along the walls.\u00a0 Yes, they do contain wine. \u00a0These are the wines that have not completed the secondary fermentation.\u00a0 As everyone knows grape juice goes through a primary fermentation when sugars turn to alcohol.\u00a0 Not everyone knows that there is another fermentation that occurs after the primary fermentation, called malolactic, in which the sharp malic acid in grapes is converted to softer lactic acid.\u00a0 As a result the wine tastes less crisp and more creamy.\u00a0 All red wines go through malolactic fermentation, but white wines are a different story. \u00a0The winemaker decides whether she wants a \u201csofter\u201d or a \u201ccrisper\u201d style white wine and if \u201ccrisper\u201d is the choice, then the wine is not allowed to go through malolactic fermentation.\u00a0 However, Susan, the winemaker at Shadow Run Vineyards, wants softer for most of the whites.\u00a0 The reason the barrels are in the tasting room is that the malolactic fermentation prefers temperatures above 60 degrees (F) and their barrel storage room is too cold.<\/p>\n

Visit the Shadow Run Vineyard You Tube Channel<\/a> and join Aaron Hunt, Susan and Les Evans for a behind the scenes look at life in Paso Robles Wine Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Malolactic Fermentation? Visitors to the Shadow Run Vineyards and Winery Tasting Room often ask about the dozen or so wine barrels stored along the walls.\u00a0 Yes, they do contain wine. \u00a0These are the wines that have not completed the secondary fermentation.\u00a0 As everyone knows grape juice goes through a primary fermentation when sugars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[70,78,107,128,130],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wine","tag-malolactic-fermentation","tag-paso-robles","tag-shadow-run-vineyards","tag-wine","tag-wine-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backroadswineries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}