Greetings! Do you know that the average wine barrel effectively ages wine for about 5 years? By then, the wine barrel has imparted its flavorings of oak and is no longer aging and enhancing the wine’s bouquet or flavor.
One option to lengthen your oak barrel’s aging life is to shave several layers of oak from [...]

Spring is here and the time is now to empty your barrels and bottle your wine or prepare your barrel for the process of storing and pouring. Deciding on whether to bottle or barrel your home made juice is the next step in this process.
Deciding to bottle or barrel depends on [...]

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Spring is here and the vineyards will demand time and energy to care for the fruit of [...]