The magic of mizunara-aged whisky – and the patience it requires to realise it…
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Fascinating read - thanks. I have found the increasingly specific provenance of french oak for wine equally as interesting (specific forests, or even trees!), but I wonder if the same experiments are going on in wine with Q. garryana and Q. muehlenbergii - must be right? I also hadn’t realised ‘european’ and ‘french’ oak were different!
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I was involved w a q garryana cooperage for a decade. It’s very pungent and the wood needs about four years of seasoning. We sold the business to Oregon Barrel Works. They do well on a moderate scale but most of their $$$ comes from chip sales.
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