Coopers in Randolph County are honing their craft of making wine barrels, and some hold a rare distinction. Higbee is home to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wooden barrels in wine cellar - Zsolt Biczo/Shutterstock It's no secret that wines, whiskeys, and beers go through meticulous ...

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres ...

The use of oak has been prevalent in winemaking for at least two millennia, first coming into widespread use during the Roman Empire. In time, winemakers discovered that beyond just storage ...

ST. HELENA — The spirit of the Old World’s vintners is alive in the Napa Valley, as a master barrel artist brings decades of experience from Bordeaux to a local French luxury winemaker. Alban Trouvé ...

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves, stacked outside warehouses and even cut in half and filled with flowers on neighborhood lawns. Barrels are everywhere in ...