Wine: Roll out the barrel | Victoria Moore

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Published Jan. 15, 2010 at 7:05 p.m.

Ever hear someone say they don't like oaky wine? Chances are what they really mean is they don't like cheap oaked wine ... "I don't like oaky wine," people sometimes tell me, screwing up their faces. But what does oaky mean, anyway? Oak is one small word that encompasses a thousand different ways in which wood is used to change the taste of a wine. We often talk in terms of American (which typically imparts a vanilla-like flavour), French and Slavonian (commonly used in chianti) oak, but trees

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