French Oak: An Unreliable Memoir
by Adam Wynn
I was asked recently: “Why are barrels so expensive?” Well, in a sense they are not expensive. I was paying AUS $1,000 a barrel 20 years ago. So given inflation...
Adam Wynn is from a well known Australian winemaking family. He graduated with a degree in Oenology from the University of Bordeaux and along with his father owned and ran the Mountadam Winery in South Australia. Amongst the first to plant Chardonnay in Australia he introduced French barrel fermentation techniques and later released Australia’s first non-oaked Chardonnay. Now retired from the industry, he and his wife spend much of the year in Japan, virus permitting, and he has for the last twenty years been the Honorary Consul-General for Japan in South Australia.