Floorboards throughout are of mellow reclaimed wood.
Flavour becomes more complex and mellow as wood flavour is extracted from the container, various substances in the wine become oxidized, and complex compounds of acids and alcohol are formed.
Mellow wood used for the floorboards and furnishings by Andreea Mincic, the set designer, modestly evokes the nearby Edison laboratory.
A mellow oil on wood from 1929, "Untitled (Cubist Composition)," melds geometric and biomorphic forms in tans, grays and yellows, and a smaller, more complex painting of 1928, "Untitled (Abstract Composition)," is a sophisticated layering of form on form a la Picasso and Braque.
Aging in wood typically mellows tequila, giving it a golden-brown color and often adding complexity.
The new wood imbues the mellow, unctuous scotch with a spicy, mildly sweet vanilla and smoky oaky note.
Mellow pecan and sweet peach woods coax meaty St. Louis-cut ribs ($14 a half-slab) and rib tips ($8 for a sandwich) to juicy, porcine excellence.
Anttila tweaked the distiller's formula, mellowing the distillate in Jequitiba Rosa wood barrels for six months, before diluting it with spring water and returning it to barrel for an additional three months.
As they age, tequilas become more mellow and take on character from the wood.
Despite the sometimes perfunctory service, this handsome wood-paneled room has a mellow Mitteleuropa charm.
A common method is oak aging, which exposes the wine to gradual levels of oxidation that can mellow the harsh grape tannins as well as introduce softer "wood tannins".
