aging.

I am looking to pick up a variable capacity tank from Speidel at More wine to reduce the amount of Carboys I have to have. It would have to remain in my garage in Southern California which gets quite hot in the summer/early fall because my wife hates all of the carboys in the kitchen of our...

So I have made several batches of wine and have used everything from oak chips to oak cubes and oak spirals to age the wine in the carboys until I found Beyond Barrel aging staves. This makes a huge difference in the flavor of my wine. I reached out to the owner of the brand and he explained...

I am aging an off dry wine kit with a spiral of French oak. I tasted after a month of the oak and it seems more dry than my first kit with only the directions. Does aging with oak make the wine more dry? If so what can I do to mellow it out and nake it more off dry again?