New Barrels for Forum Members

[Nebbiolo020]

I have my 2023 Syrah in new Hungarian oak (30gal) and although it's still early I'm liking the results so far. I thought I might be racking out of barrel by now so as to not overwhelm the wine with oak, but so far there is a nice (subtle) vanilla note developing and no overtly woody flavors...

I loaded last years Zinfandel with a full heavy dose of French oak cubes in stainless and let it age 6 months and it got really oaky so I pulled it and bottled it oak does sneak up on you when you aren’t sampling it periodically