Barrel-aged

Barrel-aged. Refers to wines that are fermented in containers such as stainless steel, then placed in oak barrels to mature.

Barrel-aged A term used for wines that matured for a period of time after fermentation in oak barrels.

It can range in style from the round and fruity Bin 65 of Australia's Lindeman winery and the inexpensive offerings of California's Napa Ridge, to the slightly heavier oak-barrel-aged offerings of Beringer, ...

"If you want to make someone suffer, serve them a barrel-aged chardonnay with an egg salad sandwich," Wesson once declared.

Toasty the barrel smell and taste imparted to oak-fermented white wines and barrel-aged white burgundy Tough usually implying too much tannin ...

Since port is blended from a variety of grapes and usually from several harvest years, there are a myriad of styles and names for different ports. However, for our purposes, it is only necessary to divide port into two categories - barrel-aged or ...

The lees are the insoluble matter including dirt and dust, cellulose, dead yeast cells, bacteria, tartrates and pectin. Racking may be done only once or several times before a wine is bottled. Red wines, especially those barrel-aged, ...

See also: White, Barrel, Grape, Floral, Sweet