Beyond blanco, reposado, and añejo, the type of wood and secondary cask can dramatically shift a tequila’s flavor profile.

It takes two to four centuries to grow the oak tree for a wine barrel. Then, after tree harvest, four, usually more, years to season the wood and the staves. Finally, it is time to turn the staves ...

Whether you consider yourself a wine or whiskey aficionado or not, it's undeniable that there is an irresistible charm in the barrels dedicated to these beverages. Crafted from sustainable and ...

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres ...

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves, stacked outside warehouses and even cut in half and filled with flowers on neighborhood lawns. Barrels are everywhere in ...

Want a bottle of wine that offers depth and complexity? Seek out something that's been aged in whiskey barrels, like our favorite bottle.

For the past five years, Vic Vasquez and Bob Flook have been using recycled CO2, or dry ice, to blast wine barrels, barrel rooms, wine caves and winery equipment. The dry ice, at 109 degrees below ...