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Beyond the Barrel

If a barrel isn’t in your immediate winemaking plans — or if your barrel has been filled so many times it has become neutral in oak char

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Oak Barrel Care: Tips From the Pros

Owning your own oak barrel can yield great rewards when handled properly. We asked the advice of two professionals that know what it takes t

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Topping Up & Oak Cubes

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The Essential Ins and Outs of Oak Barrels

Aging your wine in an oak barrel can do wonders for your wine. It can also ruin it. Before you dive in head first, learn all there is to kno

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Evaporation Clarification

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Build a Wine Barrel Table

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Oak Barrel Seepage

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Oak Alternatives: Tips from the Pros

A lot of home winemakers make small batches of wine that aren’t enough for a whole barrel. Two experts discuss their oak alternative choic

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Prepping Your First Barrel

Tips for beginners on how to prepare their first barrel.

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Your First Wine Barrel

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Wines Two Ways: Oaked and Unoaked

To understand flavor balance in your wine, you must first understand some of the basic principles to consider when deciding whether or not t

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Impact of Barrel Kinetics and Dynamics on Wine

Oak wood imparts what is generally referred to as toasted-oak aromas and flavors, but more specifically, these include a varied set of volat

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Used Spirit Barrel Experiment

Is aging wine in a barrel that once held spirits totally off limits? One hobby winemaker made some experimental wines to test it out.

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How to Build a Barrel

An amateur barrel maker shares his advice to build your own wine barrel at home.

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Year in a Life of a Wine Part VI (Bulk Aging and Bottling)

In the final installment of our year-long series, the wines are bulk aged, oaked, and bottled.

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First-Time Oak Barrel Soaking

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Post-Fermentation Wine Tweaks

Sometimes, a wine you believed would be balanced during fermentation comes up a little short after fermentation is complete. Learn what you

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Submerge Those Oak Chips

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Wine Flower

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Oak Chip Recommendations For Chardonnay

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Can I Salvage an Oak Barrel if I Burned a Sulfur Stick While the Barrel Was Wet?

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Oak Barrel Chemistry

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Is this a sure way of determining that the barrel is infected?

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Testing Wine Barrels, Dry Ice: Wine Wizard

The Wine Wizard discusses how to test your wine barrels, and whether dry ice helps in the grape or must stage.

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I am using Flextanks and oak chips for my wine and am really liking the results…