For centuries, European vintners used monstrous concrete tanks to ferment and store their wines, a technique used in California’s oldest wineries before Prohibition. But when the state’s wine industry ...

Thomas George Estates received the first Sonoma Coast Stone egg-shaped tanks Aug. 12. PETALUMA — From what was once the egg capital of the U.S., Sonoma Cast Stone is trying to crack into a developing ...

Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...

When B.C. vintners Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie decided to give friends the scoop about their radical plan to make wine entirely in concrete versus conventional steel vats or oak barrels, they ...

Despite the romance of wine cellars filled with oak barrels, most modern wine is aged in massive stainless steel tanks. Those tanks allow winemakers to consistently produce vast quantities of wine to ...

The forward-thinking winery’s vessel of choice is the concrete vat The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.