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Before it’s bottled and sold, wine has to age, which means it spends a certain amount of time in an oak, stainless steel, or ...

In the heart of Texas wine country, these Fredericksburg wine barrel cabins are a fun way to enjoy some wine and see the ...

Tracing back to 6,000 BC, a Georgian clay wine barrel, a cavernous terra-cotta pot shaped like an egg, lined with beeswax and buried to the mouth underground, was used to produce ancient white ...

John Samartzis made his first barrel of wine in 2002; he describes it as a disaster. Chastened, he went looking for a ‘how to' book, attending several winemaking courses, reading more books, and with ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the auction’s total this year is down from 2023, that reflects a smaller volume of barrels sold. Eléonore Latour, vice president of Maison Louis Latour, told Wine Spectator that she was proud to ...