The centuries-old tradition of making and repairing oak wine barrels in southern Portugal is ending, pushed out by steel barrels, "bag in box" packaging and a younger generation's lack of interest in ...

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 ...

Oak barrels do more than store wine or whiskey; they transform them. From color to texture, oak shapes how a drink tastes, ...

It takes two to four centuries to grow the oak tree for a wine barrel. Then, after tree harvest, four, usually more, years to season the wood and the staves. Finally, it is time to turn the staves ...

The replica barrels are hotel suites made of pine wood. Do you dream about wine? Then this luxe getaway may be the next adventure to add to your barrel [read as: bucket] list! A row of wine barrel ...

If you didn’t know it already, legally all Scotch whisky must be matured in oak barrels for at least three years. It’s just ...

Editor’s note: This has been updated with additional information. The last story I wrote about wine barrels for sale generated a lot of interest, at least in the number of people who read the story.

Wine barrels and cotton bales washed ashore on beaches across the Central Coast this weekend. During her regular Saturday afternoon walk by the Oceano Dunes, Heather Allen of Grover Beach saw more ...

BIG SUR, Calif. - Have you ever loved wine so much that you wanted to live in it? Now you can, sort of. A house made from two giant redwood wine barrels in Big Sur has gone on sale for the first time ...