They probably opened it up because they are going to put wine it it. They still use it even after 150 years. The air probably had a very strong/rich wine smell in it.
Well, the barrel is 150 years old and it's still in use every year. I think it's pretty cool that this thing that predates the internal combustion engine is still in use regularly making wine. I just don't run into many things like that in my modern day-to-day life
To clean it and understand how you maintain a living 150 year old thing and then put fresh wine in it. The barrel has a living bacteria ecosystem in it that you have to maintain in order to make wine in it
after the interviewer was in awe........ and shocked to see , how a wine barrel can have this secret door knocked down, he then asked the wine dude, 'so where's the wine i'm supposed to taste from these barrels?'.....wine guy replies. 'oh......i durank it awl"......................'please, come see my record collection.'
You could definitely drink it. It might not taste so good..... in reality wood breathes so you have to constantly top up a barrel with more wine (or beer or scotch or whatever is in it) so that it stays full. If you let too much evaporate out through the wood then the air that fills the space lets other bacteria grow. That's actually how sherry is made. But assuming the wine was 150 years old and hadn't evaporated for some reason it still probably wouldn't taste so good. Wine is a heterogeneous mixture, meaning it is a bunch of different things mixed up together and given enough time they will all separate according to their own specific gravity. So the sediment that provides all the color would all settle to the bottom, then you'd have a bunch of water, and floating above that on top of the water you would have the alcohol. That's what happens in a bottle over a super long time. The point of this video was that seeing a barrel that was constructed before internal combustion engines were around still being put to use making wine each year is pretty amazing and rare.
@@devenishwines6308 Great explanation, thank you! As many other viewers I thought the barrel should be full of wine, but now I understand the value of the barrel itself. Amazing 😊
It did! Well, a little bit. The point is the barrel is 150 years old and he's still using it every year to age wine. It has it's own ecosystem of bacteria inside that keep it functional
That is true, but they must have used something like it. Maybe beeswax, or pitch with horse hair or straw. It's super similar to wooden boats: They'd dry out if you had to haul them out of the water and the wood would shrink. before you put a small wooden boat back in the water people would sometimes fill it with seawater so the planks would expand again and make it water tight
@@nedicusmaximus7813 could be, but that wasn't clear to most people watching the clip. Anyway why did they decide to crack open the front part? Not sure what that piece is called in winery terminology.
Actually we were opening it up to get it ready for putting wine in it. He ages wine in it every year. That's what's cool about it. It's 150 years old and still in use. Works great. I've got some of the wine in my warehouse now
That's the whole point. The barrel is 150 years old and he still uses it every year to age wine in. This is a video of us opening it up and preparing it to hold wine for that vintage.
It's a150 year old cask thats still in use and has a living environment of bacteria in it to make the wine each year. It's amazing this thing is still functional. I think that's really cool
The barrel is 150 years old. It's been used for making wine for 150 years. So it has a unique culture of bacteria in it now that help make the wines that are aged in it each year
We were opening and cleaning the barrel to then put wine in it. The barrel has a unique culture of bacteria in it that helps the grape juice become the wine that Danilo wants it to be. I made the video because it's super rare and kind of crazy to find a barrel that predates internal combustion engines still in use today
@@devenishwines6308 It is very cool thanks for the response! I'm sure if I check thru the channel I can find some pour video's and whatnot. But yes very neat to see inside a barrel that old. It's rather fascinating how "clean" they stay inside, suppose that's the power of alcohol. If only us humans could handle it so well lol
Yeah. I'm from a place with a lot of wooden boat building and there were a lot of similarities between how you care for an ancient wood barrel and how you take care of an old wooden boat
Is this not about a 150 year old barrel that is still in use? A 150 year old barrel that is practically a living thing that has it's own environment in it? Was the video in fact about a Giraffe who collects baseball cards? Was the video about recycling E waste? No, the video was in fact a documentary style video about opening and maintaining a 150 year old barrel. The only thing fake here is your outrage
