It takes two to four centuries to grow the oak tree for a wine barrel. Then, after tree harvest, four, usually more, years to season the wood and the staves. Finally, it is time to turn the staves ...

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres ...

Whether you consider yourself a wine or whiskey aficionado or not, it's undeniable that there is an irresistible charm in the barrels dedicated to these beverages. Crafted from sustainable and ...

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 ...

Wine undergoes several process from vineyard to shop, including some that alter taste. These whiskey barrel aged wines have unique features due to this method.

First, a 2022 Merlot from Central Washington. Then, a Pilsner Urquell, followed by a Guinness stout, a No-Li amber ale, a Sierra Nevada pale ale, two nonalcoholic beers and a Trader Joe's tequila.

For the past five years, Vic Vasquez and Bob Flook have been using recycled CO2, or dry ice, to blast wine barrels, barrel rooms, wine caves and winery equipment. The dry ice, at 109 degrees below ...

After I blindly tasted through these pours, I ranked them. Of course, overall taste was the cornerstone of the ranking. I also looked at balance to find the truly “smooth” barrel-strength bourbons on ...