Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...

For centuries, European vintners used monstrous concrete tanks to ferment and store their wines, a technique used in California’s oldest wineries before Prohibition. But when the state’s wine industry ...

Thomas George Estates received the first Sonoma Coast Stone egg-shaped tanks Aug. 12. PETALUMA — From what was once the egg capital of the U.S., Sonoma Cast Stone is trying to crack into a developing ...

For about as long as wine has been made in Washington, there have been two predominent vessels for fermentation and aging: oak and stainless steel. But in recent years, influential wineries across the ...