Making bourbon generally ... its wooden container. Although wine continues aging after it's bottled, whiskeys do not get any "older" once they have gone from barrel to bottle.

What do you get for someone who has everything? How about lessons in wine making. WSJLive's Wendy Bounds learns the step by step task of making a barrel of wine at the city Winery in New York.

But not just any barrel — a foudre. A foudre is a massive wooden vat that impacts and preserves the overall taste of the wine. Making a foudre starts with French oak, a tightly grained wood that ...

A winemaker has a lot of tools at his or her disposal to make something good out of the crushed grapes, but there is probably ...

Of course, the amount of time the wine spends in the barrel can make a big difference. Wines will age in barrel anywhere from ...