Staves :
Pieces of wood made out of planks of oak split by hand and dried naturally; they are used to make the casks.
Syrupy : ...
Stave: Worked wood that forms the structure of the barrel.
Stemmy: Smell and taste of certain wines, reminiscent of the vine, particularly the green stalks.
Still Wine: Wines without carbon dioxide bubbles.
Staves
oak plant dried in open air before pieced together by cooper and transformed into barrel
Steely
applied to top Riesling for the very dry, almost metallic flavor they develop ...
Barrel A hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wood staves, used for fermenting and aging wine. Sometimes called a cask. Barrique The French name for a 225 litre Bordeaux style barrel.
Kanzlerberg (Bergheim, 3.23 ha) Good wines from Gustave Lorentz and Spielmann.
Kessler (Guebwiller, 28.53 ha) A good site for Gewurztraminer, with Schlumberger producing one of the best.
Kirchberg de Ribeauvillé (Ribeauvillé, 11.4 ha) ...
group of winemakers was used to produce the wine aroma profiles of a Chardonnay wine1 aged for 10 months and stirred once weekly for four months, in four different oak types2 sourced from the same cooper (Seguin Moreau: American oak U stave plus ...
importer's fact sheet, means "to jump from the staves of a barrel." An unusual blend of 80 percent Tuscan Sangiovese and 20 percent Cabernet Sauvignon that sees time in small French oak casks, ...
As wine slowly evaporates through the staves of sealed barrels, nothing goes back in! The barrels are left with varying degrees of vacuum, depending upon how much evaporation has taken place from each barrel.
The carmelization of barrel staves. The amount of "toast" can vary, imparting different characteristics to the wine.
Topping ...
At $50, the 2002 Cordier, Pouilly-Fuissé Jean Gustave averaged 93 points and earned a 36 percent QPR. At the $35 price point the 2002 La Chablisiènne, Chablis Mont de Milieu averaged 92 points and earns a 29 percent QPR.
No, the winery and Gustave Niebaum's Chateau is still there with its history, Coppola just converted his Niebaum-Inglenook winery to Rubicon Estate to showcase and market his high-brow premium Rubicon Estate wines.
Unoaked wines, sometimes called naked, have become trendy because the overuse of oak (or oak chips, or oak staves, or oak flavorings) has become epidemic.
"Vanillin" comes from the character of the hardwood. The three others derive from the "charring" of the barrel which occurs from heating the iron stave-rings which hold the barrel staves in place after contraction and the flaming of the interior.
VANILLIN
Component contributed by oakwood barrel staves. Considered to add a degree of "sweetness" to red wines when present in barely detectable amounts, so adding to a desirably complex style prized by connoisseurs.
Toasting
The carmelization of barrel staves. The amount of "toast" can vary, imparting different characteristics to the wine.
Woody
The smell and taste of wine kept too long in a cask, particularly an old cask with rotten staves. Not complimentary
Yeasty
Smelling of bread, usually signifying that the wine has been exposed to secondary fermentation in the bottle.
The presence of these compounds is dependent on many factors, including the place of origin, how the staves were cut and dried, and degree of "toast" applied during manufacture.
Toasted Barrels:As a barrel is being constructed, but before the heads at either end are added, the cooper (barrel maker) chars the inside edges of the staves.
Barrel (or cask)
Barrels or casks are cylindrical containers with a convex shape, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops.
The right weather at the right time: a cool-to-warm spring, warm but not searing summer (with brief hot spells in June and September) and cooler, damper weahter in late September staved off excessive alcohol levels.
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Oak offers protection, imparts flavor and does allow tiny amounts of oxygen to penetrate via the staves to both ease the tighter tannins in a red wine and create flavor complexity in both red and white wines.
The truth is that roses are the canary of the wine world. Roses are very susceptible to oidium (powdery mildew) and when they exhibit signs of this fungus, the grapes are sprayed to stave off infestation.
Oak barrels are expensive, though, and for cheaper wines the effects of barrel fermentation and ageing are simulated by the use of oak chips or even used barrel staves bolted to the inside of stainless steel tanks.
Stave
A narrow strip of wood
Still wine
Any wine that is not sparkling.
Stuck fermentation
A fermentation that has started but then stops before desired levels of sugar were converted into alcohol.
Structure ...
 See also: Wine, Oak, Barrel, Red, Red Wine
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