aging wine in oak barrels white or red oak ?
Posted: September 20th, 2012, 7:18 pm
22 months,
sometimes more,
in new oak barrels before being bottled unfiltered.
For the white wine fermentation
takes place in new oak barrels,
after which the wine spends a further year
to ? months on its lees in barrel before bottling.
The white wine is truly sensational,
equivalent in class to a top-flight White Burgundy Grand Cru,
but its scarcity means that it is rarely seen.
The red wine is no less extraordinary;
at its best it displays text-book Graves
characteristics of cigar-box, curranty fruit, earth, smoky spice and cassis.
The high Merlot content,
compared to the Médoc First Growths,
gives it a voluptuous edge,
but does not in any way detract from its ability to age.
sometimes more,
in new oak barrels before being bottled unfiltered.
For the white wine fermentation
takes place in new oak barrels,
after which the wine spends a further year
to ? months on its lees in barrel before bottling.
The white wine is truly sensational,
equivalent in class to a top-flight White Burgundy Grand Cru,
but its scarcity means that it is rarely seen.
The red wine is no less extraordinary;
at its best it displays text-book Graves
characteristics of cigar-box, curranty fruit, earth, smoky spice and cassis.
The high Merlot content,
compared to the Médoc First Growths,
gives it a voluptuous edge,
but does not in any way detract from its ability to age.