Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Bourbon wouldn’t be bourbon without new, charred American oak barrels — that’s actually written into U.S. law, and that’s where bourbon gets its signature flavor and deep amber color. Oak barrels are ...

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 ...

A winemaker has a lot of tools at his or her disposal to make something good out of the crushed grapes, but there is probably nothing as influential as the vessel they use. Stainless steel or cement ...

- Chris Deffenbaugh first saw the potential in repurposing old oak barrels when he saw pieces of an old one in the corner of a friend's basement. "Looking at the curve of the old barrel staves, the ...