Oaked blackberry wine?

[infinitenexus]

Has anyone ever tossed some oak chips in a batch of blackberry wine? If so, how was it?

 

[Julie]

Has anyone ever tossed some oak chips in a batch of blackberry wine? If so, how was it?

Yes and it is awesome. I use Hungarian oak cubes for 6 weeks. The oak seems to smooth the wine out and gives it a slight vanilla taste.

 

[infinitenexus]

Sounds great. I just bought a bunch of french oak cubes, and I'm pretty excited to start my batch of blackberry. Thank you!

 

[Julie]

Sounds great. I just bought a bunch of french oak cubes, and I'm pretty excited to start my batch of blackberry. Thank you!

You will not regret adding the oak.

 

[Wiz]

Oak makes a blackberry wine.

 

[Luc]

The only wines I ever oak are elderberry, blackberry and plums.

They really take oak well.

Put the oak in your secondary while aging and taste regularly.

The trick is to overoak it more as your taste requieres because the oak flavor will mellow out in the long run.

Luc

 

[roadwarriorsvt]

Is it too late to throw some oak in my 5 gallons of blackberry? Its been stabilized, backsweetened and aging about 2 months already.

 

[Julie]

Is it too late to throw some oak in my 5 gallons of blackberry? Its been stabilized, backsweetened and aging about 2 months already.

no you can oak it if you are planning to continue aging it.

 

[closetwine]

I tied some and agree with everyone... Defin. a good Idea! I vanilla'd some and another guy oaked his. Both were good, but his seemed to have more depth.

 

[roadwarriorsvt]

Thanks J. Off to the LHBS I go!