July 9, 2012 | 11:30 AM
“Wine sitting in a barrel receives oxygen that passes through the pores in the wood. The H2O and alcohol molecules interact with this back and forth passing of oxygen, happily. When you put that wine into a bottle, you change the equilibrium that it had in the barrel. The only oxygen it gets has to pass through the cork.”
Bo Barrett, Chateau Montelena, The Mystery of Bottle Shock, Wine Business Monthly, July 2012
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