That's a trick known as 'boisinee' as I recall.
You add chips from broken, well used barrels or a fluid derived from
them.
It's a quick and dirty way of achieving fast maturation.
They execute you in public in Bordeaux for that crime.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 01/02/2009, at 1:05 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> Many years ago Wolf Blass was accused of "doctoring" some of his
> reds by adding oak chips to the barrels they were maturing in,
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