{"id":101,"date":"2021-01-21T20:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2021-04-27T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:15:38","slug":"equipment-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/equipment-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipment Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After some online research and discussions with other winemakers it looks like wine making and computing have one thing in common: quality out is directly related to quality in. Since the grapes I am starting with input quality depends on front end processing.  Some of the winemakers I have talked to rely on the picking crews for this but others use an additional preprocessing step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you might expect there&#8217;s all kinds of fancy gadgets including robotic &amp; optical sorters (which cost more than I am willing to invest right now for this). If you are curious about this equipment check out https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cY9R9igdiFw&amp;t=9s to see one in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to add a sorting table to aid in manual separation of waste (leaves &amp; stems) and removal of grapes that are under ripe or damaged. I am also replacing the current crusher-destemer with a destemmer that I will use before crushing the grapes &#8211; the order does matter &#8211; crushing first can introduce bitter flavors if the grape seeds get crushed and &#8220;green&#8221; flavors from the stems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some online research and discussions with other winemakers it looks like wine making and computing have one thing in common: quality out is directly related to quality in. Since the grapes I am starting with input quality depends on front end processing. Some of the winemakers I have talked to rely on the picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenleaveswines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}