The U.S. Cooperage Industry

By Ward, John

Book Id: WPLBN0000674949
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 146.17 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The U.S. Cooperage Industry
Author:	Ward, John
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Export controls--United States
Collections:	Export and Trade Collection
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Publisher:	Federal Trade Commissionn (FTC)


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Wilson Forest Products, the winner of the Small Business Administration?s 2003 Small Business Exporter of the Year award, is helping wine producers worldwide to create the flavors that define their products. Have you ever encountered an adze or a chiv? Can you distinguish a barrique from a piece? Have you ever felt a croze along a stave? If these terms mean something to you, then you are probably familiar with the esoteric world of wood barrels and vats, or cooperage. These containers, once the mainstay of shipping and trade, gradually gave way to plastic and metal containers at the beginning of the 20th century. But they have retained their importance in a prestigious niche market throughout the world: wine and spirits distilling, where the wood used in the barrels that store these beverages? typically oak?imparts some of the elusive flavors that give today?s best wines and whiskies their distinctive tastes.