All oak is not created equal. Here’s why the type of barrel used to age your wine matters and how it impacts what's in your ...

and small amount of oxygen to soften the wine during barrel maturation. Over the years, the only wood retained for wine vessels was oak, other types added undesirable flavors during aging.

MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec 9 (Reuters) - In a small lab in California’s Silicon Valley, Martin Janousek and Stu Aaron are making whiskey. There are no oak barrels stacked floor to ceiling.

Talk about oak in wine, and one might picture rows of barrels, each cask snuggled into ... time the wine will sit with the wood. Oak chips, small chunks that would look at home in a backyard ...

You should definitely speak to your allergist to make sure, but our previous research has shown that oak ... to barrels, unfortunately there is no universal way to identify if a wine has seen the ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, DFW-based indie whiskey brand Oak & Eden unveils Wheat & Honey, a small batch release ... at least two years in American Oak barrels. They then break tradition ...

“The oak barrel has that ability to act as an agent in the fermentation,” says Eustis, owner of Britt’s Fermented Foods, a small, local company whose devotion to process has won it rabid ...

“Our journey started after being gifted a small oak barrel that we started testing many different combinations of gin, sweet vermouth and Campari in,” Lisa tells Broadsheet. “The barrel became our ...