Unoaked

July 18, 2019

A wine that has been fermented and aged in stainless steel or concrete tanks, barrels, or eggs, instead of oak. This style gives the wine more clarity and purity of fruit.

A petrol (gasoline) aroma and flavor in wine comes from the proximity of vines planted near oil refineries.

Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
To simpleton sages and reasoning fools;
This moment’s a flower too fair and brief
To be wither’d and stain’d by the dust of the schools.
Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue,
But, while they are fill’d from the same bright bowl,
The fool who would quarrel for difference of hue,
Deserves not the comfort they shed o’er the soul.

—Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet, from Irish Melodies, Vol. II

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