🍷Head Winemaker John Olney explains Chairman Paul Draper’s decision in the 1970s to explore aging our wines in American oak.
🍷American oak is twice as dense as French, carrying greater spice and wood sugar compounds that slowly extract and fill out a wine’s 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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