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A barrique is a small oak barrel used for fermentation and aging of red and white wine.

 


Barrique
A 225 liter barrel used to age wine in Bordeaux or Italy
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Barrique
The barrique is a French wooden barrel with a capacity of 225 litres for the fermentation and aging of red and white wine. The longer a wine spends in barrel the more of the oak flavour it will take on.

Barrique (France)The barrique is a wooden barrel, the deign of which originated in Bordeaux, France. It has a capacity of 225 litres.

barrique
Fût en bois, de chêne généralement, employé pour le vieillissement des vins. Les barriques bordelaises, de 225 litres, sont les plus utilisées.
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Barrique
225 L. (25/12 bottle cases)
Barrel Aging
refers to keeping wine in a wooden barrel after fermentation and before bottling.

Barrique (Fr.) Barrel of 225 litres.
Baum Scale used to measure the sugar in grape juice. Approximates to the potential alcohol, therefore a juice of 12 Baum will yield a wine of around 12% vol. if fermented to dryness.

[edit] Barrique The French name for a 225 litre Bordeaux style barrel (Bordeaux hogshead). Will yield 24 cases of 12 bottles each.[1]
[edit] Baumé A measure of the sugar concentration in the juice or wine.

barriqueSmall French oak barrel. barroFertile brown clay found in the Jerez region of Spain. batonnageStirring the lees with a stick to increase flavour extraction. bauméA scale for must weight.

There are many different shapes and sizes, but the most popular are the barrique of 225 litres and the hogshead of around 300 litres. Nearly always made of oak.

barrique:A small oak barrel of 225 litre capacity favoured for the production of high quality wines.
btonnage:A winemaking process of stirring the lees back into the wine following barrel fermentation of white wines.

Barrique
A Bordelais term for a 225 litre barrel (almost 60 gallons)
Battonage
Stirring of lees into the wine
Baumé
A term to measure Specific Gravity, which indicates the sugar content of unfermented grape juice. One degree baumé is equivalent to 1.

In some registers dated back to the half of the fifteenth century, are in fact found mentions about Chablis wines transported in barrique to the region of Picardy, Flanders and England.

They were replaced by new Bordeaux barriques (225 liters) made of French oak at first, but, more recently, made of American oak as it gives better results with the sundrenched Spanish wines.

Despite the fact that some winemakers use barriques for aging (usually in combination with mid-size barrels or large Slavonian casks known as botti), very few of these wines could be described as "international" in nature.

Wine: Rich, harmonious with the higher aroma intensity. It is suitable for the ageing and for the 'barrique' technology, as one of few white varieties.
Müller Thurgau (Riesling x Silvaner, Rivaner) ...

A decent Chianti would be a great match actually, and since it's probably for a special occasion, a Riserva with a little barrique aging would be a great choice, and quite often worth the extra bucks." ...

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