馃嵎Head Winemaker John Olney explains Chairman Paul Draper’s decision in the 1970s to explore aging our wines in American oak.
馃嵎American oak is twice as dense as French, carrying greater spice and wood sugar compounds that slowly extract and fill out a wine鈥檚 body. In the case of Ridge Wine, with high tannin content, the American oak sweetness coats the tannins and helps make the wine more sensuous and exotic.
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