Influence of Quercus petraea Liebl. wood structure on the permeation of oxygen through wine barrel staves
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Ignacio Nevares
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Maria del Alamo-Sanza
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Víctor Martínez-Martínez
,
María Menéndez-Miguélez
Abstract
The anatomical characteristics of oak wood, which is usually employed for making wine barrels, affect the properties of the wine, because these characteristics are related to the chemical compounds that can be potentially transferred to wine during the aging process. Grain, as the rate of tree growth, is the most commonly employed parameter to define the quality of the oak wood used in cooperage. Nevertheless, oxygen is a key factor in this process and there are few articles that evaluate the oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of the wood employed in cooperage. This work presents the evaluation of the anatomical characteristics of the French oak (Quercus petraea Liebl.) measured with X-ray computed tomography and the OTR of 267 wood samples extracted from recently constructed wine barrels. This study demonstrates that the OTR is dependent on the anatomical features of oak wood, the first step to classify a natural material as wood for custom oxygenation barrel making. OTR cannot be determined from the wood grain or any other single property because it depends on the overall anatomical characteristics of each wood sample, the grain and the average earlywood and latewood width being the three parameters with a stronger correlation with the OTR.
Acknowledgments
The authors express great appreciation to Tonelería INTONA (Navarra, Spain) for their collaboration. The authors also want to thank Ivan Josipovic for X-ray CT scanning and reconstruction of all samples, as well as analysis of a part of the X-ray CT volumes. The authors also thank Maarten Devriendt for analysis of the other part of the X-ray CT volumes. V.M.M. thanks IBERPHENOL for his contract and M.M.M. thanks Junta de Castilla y León (VA028U16) for her contract. The authors thank Ann Holliday for her services in revising the English.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: The work was funded by Junta de Castilla y León (Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/ 501100008431, VA028U16), MINECO (Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329, AGL2014-54602-P), FEDER, Interreg España-Portugal Programme (Iberphenol).
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
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