Stravecchio

January 27, 2020

Very old, a term more frequently applied to spirits than wine.

About 30% of the world’s oak is used to make wine barrels.

Answer: False.

Just 2% of the world's oak is suitable to be planed into staves that will ultimately be assembled to make wine barrels. Those staves will come from just the heart of the tree.

“Age gives a wine a sense of beauty and satisfaction that it could never have had before when it was young. In our minds, we intuit that beauty and satisfaction as a feeling of completeness. Because so much of life is incomplete, an old wine is remarkable and moving.”

—Warren Winiarski
Founder of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars

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