31.   Mouton-Rothschild would supply its wine makers and oak barrels for aging and would underwrite other costs.

32.   Most super-Tuscans spend about a year in oak barrels and are intense wines that need aging.

33.   Next year, the winery will import oak barrels from California to begin storing what will become vintage, upscale wine.

34.   Now fermentation usually takes a few days and the wine often spends only a single year in oak barrels.

35.   Nutmeg, vanilla and the buttery roundness expected of aging in French oak barrels.

36.   One of the highest costs of making wine is in cooperage, the oak barrels and tanks that are essential for aging most red and some white wines.

37.   She invites visitors to taste the difference between wine aged in old oak barrels and new ones.

38.   Some are experimental, like Vie di Romans in Isonzo del Friuli, which unconventionally ferments Dessimis pinot grigio in oak barrels.

39.   Tawny refers to the amber color the wine assumes during its long life in oak barrels.

40.   Tannins come from grape stems, seeds and skins as well as wood tannins from aging the wine in oak barrels.