How Oak Barrels Are Made

Jamie Goode visits Tonnellerie Mercurey, in Burgundy, to see how oak wine barrels are made.

[dglesterhardunkichud]

These guys must hate, HATE Donkey Kong.

[jonathana]

Came from Shadiversity. He just did a video on wooden barrels and I wanted to see how barrels were made. I remember seeing a video on history Channel about barrels so I came across yours. Cheers

[unicornwizhez]

I’ve been wondering how barrels have been made forever that they’re perfectly sealed the wood is curved it always perplexed me

[kylecoral]

Awesome process, those barrels when they come out of the sander look amazing!!

[ImperialEarthEmpire]

this knowledge must be preserved in case of apocalypse... a society without barrels will not last long...

[justme]

and all this is done by hand and hand tools 100s years ago - pretty amazing!

[visualonestudio]

It's wild to think back in the days barrels were how everything was transported. Ships sailing around the world filled to the brim with barrels.

[m.w.]

Imagine how long this used to take and how much skill it required when every step of the process was done by hand with relatively primitive tools, measurement techniques and materials. Wild.

[skemmdarvargar]

"A bung hole is cut into the side"
Suddenly I'm having a hard time taking barrel making seriously

[ctdieselnut]

Being able to make something watertight out of wood is crazy to me. Especially given that wood expands, contracts, and cracks due to varying moisture content.

Add to that, they are made for bulk production by the thousands. Precision over miles of joints makes it even more impressive. Doesn't matter whether its by hand or with machines, its still amazing. By hand from scratch is more impressive but theres nothing wrong with using machines to cut down on manual work. Even with machines you still need the skills to set them up correctly and make adjustments, and people still have to supply propper material and fine tune while assembling.

Thx for the vid!

[DaigoParry]

The first person who thought of this is a genius.

Can’t imagine back in medieval times, all this was made BY HAND. And the entire industry of men making thousands and thousands of barrels all by hand. It’s a lot of hard work.

[rewsterfewd]

Makes me wonder how someone found out how to do this from the beginning

[kalliehennigar]

I kind of just want one... not for alcohol or to store things I just want to look at it they're so cool

[MrMaacin]

This video: How oak barrels are made
Follow up video: @0:30 How the Ugliest Pants in the World are made

[markc]

Once the barrel is filled with alcohol the wood expands forming a water tight seal

[kskid]

That's so cool. In my opinion barrels and kegs should be how things are transported. Not with one-time use plastic containers that just mess up our ocean and land more. Sure, the wood demand would be huge but we could make aluminum kegs that would last lifetimes as well as wooden ones are bio-degradable.

[BunnyFilms]

I always wonder how they didn't leak. Wow!

[mansoragazadeh]

Do you put the wood in the water before you start making the barrel?

[Soulvinum]

If this was in Uk they had to use …helmet…highvis…safety boots…glasses…and a never ending security equipment…ridiculous equipment. Here these guys work safely and without all that snob English requirements…we’ll done guys great video.

[robp.]

I can appreciate why heavily oaked wines are more expensive.