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 ...

But as the continuing popularity of wines with obvious oak flavoring such as Beringer Reserve Chardonnay or Yellow Tail Shiraz from Australia suggest, to many, oak may be an essential wine flavor.

Aging wine in oak barrels is nothing new, but it’s become increasingly controversial. Here’s a primer on what oak brings to winemaking and how to read a label to predict how oaky a bottle ...

What you like in wine is often identified by the oak barrel, so it helps to pay attention to the process.

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 ...

Social Oak Wine & Whiskey Lounge, a self-service lounge concept, offers 56 wines and 28 whiskeys by the pour.

The three Paravel suitcase styles—Carry-On Plus, Grand, and Trunk—lets owners travel with two, three or six bottles of wine. Silver Oak Cellars Travel gear maker Paravel has partnered with ...

When B.C. vintners Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie decided to give friends the scoop about their radical plan to make wine entirely in concrete versus conventional steel vats or oak barrels ...

In winery after winery, oak wine barrels stacked high and weighing more than a quarter-ton each came cascading down, renewing worries about […] ...

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.