Custom Barrel Profiling Beaulieu VineyardObjective The objective is to determine if the designed, custom profiles meet expectations for Beaulieu Vineyard Chardonnay.Synopsis Three custom, or special, profile toasting regimes were coopered and used to barrel-ferment and age Chardonnay wine (see process curves below). These were compared with three existing products: the World Cooperage Traditional, the T.W. Boswell Côte d’Or, and the …

The objective of this experiment was to compare different American oak profiles in the same wine. Every profile used the same wood lot and seasoning time, was air dried in the same yard, and was processed under similar conditions.