One of the biggest influences on a whiskey‘s character is the time it spends inside a barrel soaking up color and flavor. But there are a few brands that are flipping the script and adding barrel ...

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves, stacked outside warehouses and even cut in half and filled with flowers on neighborhood lawns. Barrels are everywhere in ...

Fire crackles between the seasoned oak staves, fastened with steel hoops. As the sparks settle, the aromas float through the air - clove, cedar and vanilla. All the nonfruit characteristics you've ...