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De Bortoli Wines was established in 1928 by Vittorio & Giuseppina De Bortoli and rapidly expanded under the direction of their son, Deen De Bortoli. [15] The family history is documented in a book called Celebrazione! launched in 2003 to celebrate De Bortoli Wines' 75th Anniversary. [16] Deen De Bortoli (born 1936) was the chairman of De ...
A 4-litre cask of at least 9.5% alcohol can often be found for around A$10. [10] These attributes have led to boxed wine being widely available throughout Australia and holding a prominent place in Australian pop culture. [11] [12] "Bag-in-box" packaging is used for boxed wine as well as other drinks
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The age of product from the first bottling is the number of containers times the aging interval. As the solera matures, the average age of product asymptotically approaches one plus the number of scales (excluding the top scale) (K) divided by the fraction of a scale transferred or bottled (α), or (1 + K/α) .
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages; [ 3 ] a small barrel or cask is known as a keg .
Finishing (also known as double matured or wood-finished) is the procedure that some whiskies undergo where the spirit is matured in a cask of a particular origin and then spends time in a cask of different origin (from a couple of months up to the entire maturation [citation needed]) Typically, the first cask is an American oak cask formerly used to mature bourbon.
Production began on 5 September 2014, with the first cask of single malt whisky filled on 22 September 2014. The first release of whisky (4000 bottles), [ 2 ] when a selection of casks had reached the three-year minimum age, took place in October 2017.
Cooper readies or rounds off the end of a barrel using a cooper's hand adze Assembly of a barrel, called mise en rose' in French. A cooper is a craftsman who produces wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable.