Luxury winemakers producing some of the most expensive wine in the world will pay up to $50,000 for a single barrel to age their wine. But not just any barrel — a foudre. A foudre is a massive wooden ...
Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves, stacked outside warehouses and even cut in half and filled with flowers on neighborhood lawns. Barrels are everywhere in ...
Seth heads to Barrel Oak Winery in Delaplane, VA where he samples a glass of aged Norton wine. Seth Tillman visits BARREL OAK WINERY in Delaplane, Virginia to explore the art of winemaking from vine ...
A winemaker has a lot of tools at his or her disposal to make something good out of the crushed grapes, but there is probably nothing as influential as the vessel they use. Stainless steel or cement ...