In winery after winery, oak wine barrels stacked high and weighing more than a quarter-ton each came cascading down, renewing worries about a lightly regulated threat to safety in fault-riddled ...

In the heart of wine country, the rare bottles and quarter-ton oak barrels began tumbling shortly after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake rattled the region Sunday morning.

In winery after winery, oak wine barrels stacked high and weighing more than a quarter-ton each came cascading down, renewing worries about a lightly regulated threat to safety in fault-riddled ...

Oak wine barrels being fire roasted at Demptos Napa Cooperage at 1050 Soscol Ferry Road in Napa. Photo of Victor Lopez putting more wood to burn inside the barrel to roast it.

This permits wine to breathe much the way it does in oak. It's also totally neutral, ... Her 6.5-ton tanks from Nico Velo in Italy cost less than 6,000 euros apiece, ...

Champagne is prized above all for its elegance. At first glance, it might seem that the richness and potentially oaky flavors of barrels would be ill-suited to Champagne's delicate character. In ...

In winery after winery, oak wine barrels stacked high and weighing more than a quarter-ton each came cascading down, renewing worries about a lightly regulated threat to safety in fault-riddled ...

In winery after winery, oak wine barrels stacked high and weighing more than a quarter-ton each came cascading down, renewing worries about a lightly regulated threat to safety in fault-riddled ...

Napa Valley's seismically reinforced winery buildings generally held up to the largest earthquake to hit Northern California in a quarter-century, but the precious wine piled inside often did not.