Alban Trouve, the cooper at Cathiard Vineyard, sands a wine barrel on Monday, June 16. Alban Trouve, the cooper at Cathiard ...

On average, it takes grape vines three years to start producing fruit. Here's how local wineries take it from the vine to ...

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 glass. Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer ...

Here's a lesson I learnt the hard way about about using wine barrels in the garden (the fake ones)... Blog: <a href="http://www.selfsufficientme.com/">http://www ...

In this episode on Tekniq, we observe the various precise operations involved in making wine barrels, similar to the steps in producing matchsticks and packaging them. Ex-Steelers WR Sets Record ...

It’s then finished in three different types of barrels—first-fill amontillado sherry, tokaji (a sweet Hungarian wine), and moscatel (a sweet fortified wine). The whiskey is also blended with a ...

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 ...

Oak and wine were made for each other. The wood and how it is treated introduces flavors compounds and textures. Oak barrels allow slow oxygenation, which engenders complexity and depth.

A home for sale in Central California is a wine lover's dream come true. The “Barrel House,” a home made out of a pair of two-story tall reclaimed redwood wine barrels in Big Sur ...

A home constructed on California’s Central Coast from two giant two-story wine barrels is now for sale for $3.3 million.The unique, 5-acre Big Sur property has been in the same family for 40 ...

The ‘Barrel House’ is an architect-designed property that does what it says on the tin: the house is built from two genuine redwood wine barrels stacked on top of each other. In their past ...