And the caramelized sugars from the gator-charred oak flavor and color the bourbon.

Americans prefer a big, fruity wine with lots of oak flavor (the taste of vanilla) and high alcohol.

Golodetz felt the fruit was ample enough to stand up to the oak flavors.

This was clearly an ambitious bottle, with plenty of toasty oak flavors.

Larger barrels have a smaller wood-to-wine ratio and therefore less pronounced oak flavors.

It's not too heavy, and I think the oak flavor is just about right.

The oak flavor, something like vanilla, is usually dominant in the wine.

Their winemaking did not include heavy doses of new oak flavor and techniques to soften acidity, which are now standard California features.

The question of oak flavors did occasionally divide the panel.

The oak flavors acquired over the years in barrels gives them backbone.