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Ageing

Ageing is the period after fermentation when young wine continues to mature before the finished bottling.

How it works

It may spend that time in a steel tank, wooden barrel or clay vessel. The vessel and duration can affect smell and mouthfeel. Contact with yeast sediment can also play a part.

Sources: Natural wine without myths

How to use this when choosing

If you want to find or avoid oak flavour, ask whether barrels were new or used and how long the wine stayed in them. Aged in wood alone does not describe the finished taste.

Sources: Natural wine without myths

Read in the journal A barnyard or medicinal smell in natural wine can hide the fruit — guests do not have to drink it bravely. Explained in context in our article about natural wine.

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