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    THE ARGUMENT FOR OAK!

    Nov 30, 2020 4 minutes
    JOY WALTERFANG

    THERE are those that love big oaky wines and those who hate them – I think I am safe in saying the majority of wine consumers fall into the latter category. But oak isn’t the enemy here it is how it is used. Oak ageing smoothes out a wine and balances the flavours - when it’s done well, but with inept use it can smother everything, leaving you with nothing but a mouthful of splinters!

    Oak can’t be all bad, after all it has been a couple of hundred years now that French winemakers have been maturing their premium wines in oak. The First Growth wines of Bordeaux and

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