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Review on 🍷 French Oak Infusion Spirals - Enhanced Medium Toast by Jessica Young

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Oak barrels are too big, try these.

I've been making wine for 3 years now and as I increased my bottlings the need to add oak flavor to this wine was applied in many ways. Initially, oak chips were placed in the containers after aging. OK! but very messy to remove from containers. Oak cubes are better, but not by much. Then I found barrel mill coils and they were great for small tanks but too big for bottles. French oak infusion spirals are smaller and fit directly into the bottles. My biggest concern is that the directions say 2 coils per 6 gallon container, max saturation for 6 weeks. Here you should be careful. These things work fast. After 3 weeks my wine had all the oak it needed and had to be removed. I want the spirals to be wrapped in nylon mesh and a rope that allows them to be taken out of the containers without pouring the wine into another container called a shelf. If you can't use barrels, this is the way to go.

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