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 ...

There’s something about a barrel room in a winery. On the surface, it’s just a giant room filled with a bunch of identical wooden barrels stacked in rows. That alone can be an impressive sight, but ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CALEDONIA, Minn. - Enormous stacks of white-oak strips cover the surrounding hills. In the cavernous building below, a cacophony ...

In the backyard shop of Jeremy Smith's house on Cooper Street, a homegrown Missoula furniture business is finding its legs in an unusual medium: wine barrel wood. Reconstituted under Smith's artistic ...

Oak barrels have been associated with transporting and aging wine for thousands of years, but for all their ubiquity, not all oak is the same. In fact, the choice of barrel, depending on how long a ...

With the heat turned up here in the high country, I got to thinking about the chilly wine caves and barrel rooms I have had the opportunity to explore over the years. The cool, dry 55° air, the ...

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves, stacked outside warehouses and even cut in half and filled with flowers on neighborhood lawns. Barrels are everywhere in ...

First, a correction. It seems that most wine judges and critics now have apps that scan the world for the use of their name and recently one in London pointed out that I had erred in referring to him ...

SALEM, Mo. — Standing on a wooded hillside in the Ozarks, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis, Brad Boswell watches a chain-saw-wielding logger make several deft cuts at the base of a 100-foot ...