Wine and oak: Andrew Jefford explores changing tastes
What’s the relationship between vineyard and forest? Does one need the other? I’m not thinking of plant communities and root-system interactions – but chainsaws biting 100-year-old trunks to create tuns, barriques, staves and chips. Where are we with wine and oak? Raw new wine can be exciting (hence the heurige or ‘this year’ traditions of […]
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