The business uses between 300 and 400 barrels a year, obtained from local businesses, to build unique products.

A master cooper—the barrel maker—arranges 30-32 ... Vibrant, juicy full-bodied malbec-led blend. Argentine wine with hint of German heritage. $12-16 (1-liter bottle) • The Prisoner Wine ...

Making a barrel by hand is a precise science. And one family business in southern Spain has been perfecting the process since 1975. Tonelería Herfe makes thousands of artisanal wooden barrels for ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

Specifically, let's figure out what the terms "full proof," "barrel proof," and "cask strength" actually mean. First of all, ...

the cooper (barrel maker) chars the inside edges of the staves. This final treatment imparts aromas of vanilla, spice and smoke to the wood and then the wine. Char levels include light, medium and ...

Phosphoribosylanthranilate isomerase (PRAI) and indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase (IGPS) are distantly related α/β-barrel enzymes that catalyze successive steps in tryptophan biosynthesis.