Wine Tasting in the Napa Valley. Go to www.jamiestone.com and click Flickr to see the latest pics of our trip.
Pictured here are barrels of wine stored in man made caves at the Rutherford Winery. Each barrel is made of French oak and costs about $800-900 US empty. When full they hold about 300 bottles of wine. This particular winery has about 8000 barrels in its cave at any given time. The barrels are used for about three years and by then most of the oak taste is gone so they sell them off to wineries that make cheaper wines like the $5 kind you can get at Safeway.
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