The ancient Celts were a people of the forest. They used a lot of wood in their daily lives, for housing, cookery and art. Sometime around the 5th century B.C., they came up with an ingenious new way ...

Bourbon wouldn’t be bourbon without new, charred American oak barrels — that’s actually written into U.S. law, and that’s where bourbon gets its signature flavor and deep amber color. Oak barrels are ...

Barrel Oak Winery opened in Delaplane, Virginia, in 2008, the culmination of a dream of founders Brian and Sharon Roeder. Kathy Sullivan, who, with her husband Terry, visited numerous wineries over a ...

Say the word "winery" and many people may envision a cool, dimly lit space filled with wooden barrels - each holding 800 gallons or so - giving the liquid inside time to mellow, develop complexity and ...

Talk about oak in wine, and one might picture rows of barrels, each cask snuggled into the two below. Go on a winery tour, and you'll march past walls of barrel tops decorated with coopers' stylized ...

Seth heads to Barrel Oak Winery in Delaplane, VA where he samples a glass of aged Norton wine. Seth Tillman visits BARREL OAK WINERY in Delaplane, Virginia to explore the art of winemaking from vine ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Freedman covers wine, spirits, food, and travel. This article is more than 8 years old. In May of 2015, Silver Oak, the ...

There’s something about a barrel room in a winery. On the surface, it’s just a giant room filled with a bunch of identical wooden barrels stacked in rows. That alone can be an impressive sight, but ...

Let’s face it: Wine language is confusing. Many of the world’s finest wines (and many more inferior ones) are aged in oak barrels, but if a wine tastes “oaky,” well, that means it tastes like a tree.