Barrel-aged
A term used for wines that matured for a period of time after fermentation in oak barrels.
Barrel-fermente
A term used for wines that are fermented in oak containers.
Barrel-aged. Refers to wines that are fermented in containers such as stainless steel, then placed in oak barrels to mature.
Barrel-aged/matured
This simply means that the wine has been aged/matured in a wooden barrel, usually made of oak, before bottling.
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, ...
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 ...
Sometimes older wines, or wines that have undergone too much processing, can lose their fruitiness. In fine red wines, we often look for a balance between the natural fruitiness and the barrel-aged character added by oak.
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: Aged, Grape, Fruit, Barrel, White
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