Sentence examples for use of new oak from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bes also eschews the use of new oak barrels to age his wines.

If there is any fault common to many of the Ribera del Duero wines, it is the vanilla taste imparted by the excessive use of new oak.

The use of oak in California Cabernet has a long history, with many producers favoring the use of new oak barrels heavily composed of American oak.

Or, to put it another way, many of the so-called modernists, who strove to make softer, more approachable wines, partly through the use of small barrels of new oak, have pulled back from the excesses of the past.

Following their lead, we preserve cabernet franc's varietal character by using a small percentage of new oak and bottling the wine as 100percentt cabernet franc.

The proportion of new oak at Trotanoy is generally 30 to 50 percent, depending on the vintage, and is used to let the wine breathe, not to flavor it.

Some tasted of new oak barrels; others tasted just of the grape.

Instead, it is almost always free of the blemishing of new oak flavors.

Rich, smooth and quite refined for aglianico, with flavors of new oak, plum and spice.

His project 7,000 Oaks, unveiled at Documenta in Kassel, involved planting thousands of new oak trees in the city as an ecological gesture of reforestation.

The importance of using new oak barrels is greatly exaggerated, he said.