Staves :
Pieces of wood made out of planks of oak split by hand and dried naturally; they are used to make the casks.
Syrupy : ...
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 ...
staves...
Oak planks inserted into wine as a less expensive means of imparting wood tannins, oak character.
Steen...
oak alternatives: Include oak chips, shavings, cubes, powder, innerstaves and planks. These products are used to impart oak flavours and aromas to the wine.
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 ...
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.
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.
VARIETAL CHARACTER ...
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.
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.
Barrel (or cask)
Barrels or casks are cylindrical containers with a convex shape, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops.
Cask: Wooden cask used to age the wines. The Bordeaux cask (225 litres) is reowned for aging great table wines. It is made of oak staves held together with metal hoops, with two lids.
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.
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.
 See also: Wine, Oak, Barrel, Complex, Tannin
  
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