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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Oak Barrels
... of the great vineyards of Burgundy.
On his Pinot log is a series of posts on French Oak barrels I ... to discover more about the barrels he was using; how they were made, how the wood was selected ... for the entry entitled “06.16.06 | Bullet and Barrels “.
Great stuff...
Not only oak barrels
Oak is certainly by very far the most popular wood to use for barrels, but it is not the only. EU has recently approved the mention on wine labels that the wine has been fermented or aged in wood other than oak. It is also permitted, though not required, to mention on the label the type of wood. In other words, you may in the future see on the label e.g. “aged in barrel...
8 - Barrels, Oak Chips, and Glass
Home winemaking step 8 - All about barrels, oak chips and glass. New idioms, malo-lactic fermentation, and more wine history, too...
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8 - Barrels, Oak Chips, and Glass
Home winemaking step 8 - All about barrels, oak chips and glass. New idioms, malo-lactic fermentation, and more wine history, too...
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awesome · Cabernet · Dave · Food & Spirits · gold · Home · medal · Merlot · Sauvignon · Shiraz · Syrah · wine · winemaking · Zinfandel Posted on: Cellar Dwellers - Home Winemaking 136 weeks ago
18 - More About Barrels and Oak
Join us for our new streamlined show format and the next virtual winetasting - bring your bottle of Chateau Ste Michelle - Columbia Valley SYRAH - 2002
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Arts & Entertainment · modified 18 _id15891:_id15892 Posted on: Cellar Dwellers - Home Winemaking 122 weeks ago
18 - More About Barrels and Oak
Join us for our new streamlined show format and the next virtual winetasting - bring your bottle of Chateau Ste Michelle - Columbia Valley SYRAH - 2002
Posted under:
awesome · Cabernet · Dave · Food & Spirits · gold · Home · medal · Merlot · Sauvignon · Shiraz · Syrah · wine · winemaking · Zinfandel Posted on: Cellar Dwellers - Home Winemaking 122 weeks ago
Q: Oak Chips in Place of Barrels?
... can offer you the comfort of knowing that top-flight producers still age their wine in oak barrels. We certainly do here at Goosecross. I can also say that nothing does for wine what barrels do ... Question from James: I heard someone talking about using oak chips to make wine instead ... to be honest, I’ll have to disillusion you. It’s increasingly common for wineries to use oak chips...
Someone isn't getting their French oak barrels ...
A story today on the New York Times Web site (link might require registration) tells about a container ship that ran aground off the southwest English coast. The big concern is fuel and toxins that could hurt the environment and wildlife.
Press Hit!
OK, so it's just a mention halfway down of our participation in the Lake Tahoe Food Wine Fest, and it's already over - still, we've never before been mentioned in the same breath as Silver Oak (or Kermit Lynch...
Leaf Town
Nice mention today in the Daily Candy: Just Leaf Town Why not leaf town and come up for the weekend? We'll be here!...
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