Oaking blackberry wine

terroirdejeroir · Apr 21, 2016

My fourth batch of blackberry wine is bulk aging. This is the first "estate" batch from blackberries I grew. I racked it yesterday and had a little sample. Very excited with its potential and I am considering aging it on some French oak. Does anybody have experience oaking blackberry wine? I don't plan to backsweeten it and I don't mind aging it for a while.

jemiller59 · Apr 23, 2016

Yes we have added oak to a blackberry wine. It is very good. We are just starting to experiment with oaking and it has been very good.

WVMountaineerJack · Apr 24, 2016

We normally add oak to dark berry wines, it takes them up to the next level, doenst have to be sweet, a nice dry blackberry with some oak and is well balanced is very good! WVMJ

Julie · Apr 24, 2016

I use Hungarian oak in my blackberry, comes out with a nice blackberry/vanilla finish

terroirdejeroir · May 2, 2016

WVMountaineerJack said:
We normally add oak to dark berry wines, it takes them up to the next level, doenst have to be sweet, a nice dry blackberry with some oak and is well balanced is very good! WVMJ

Jack, do you oak elderberry too?

terroirdejeroir · May 2, 2016

WVMountaineerJack said:
We normally add oak to dark berry wines, it takes them up to the next level, doenst have to be sweet, a nice dry blackberry with some oak and is well balanced is very good! WVMJ

Jack, do you oak elderberry as well?

terroirdejeroir · May 2, 2016

Jack, do you oak elderberry as well?

WVMountaineerJack · May 3, 2016

Yes, we typically add toasted oakmor in the primary, let it clear in the secondary and add chips or staves as its bulkaging, not so much its a main characteristic, more like a supporting player in the background. WVMJ

terroirdejeroir said:
Jack, do you oak elderberry too?

SBWs · May 3, 2016

I'm with Julie on this one I like Hungarian oak for Blackberry

WalkingWolf · Jul 19, 2016

Looking to oak some BB in the near future

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