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Feature Article
As any winemaker will tell you, the type of wood used to make barrels is a major determinant in how the wine will develop.
You Want Wine Barrels - Missouri's Got Your Wood
Why would wineries from around the globe source their wine barrels from little Cuba, Missouri? McGinnis Wood Products, that's why.
by
Tim Pingelton
March 27, 2008
cold winter rain is lightly falling all over the Ozark Highlands in central-eastern Missouri. Everything is wet and cold: all of Crawford County; all of Cuba, Missouri; and all of the neatly stacked wine barrel staves - thousands of them - surrounding McGinnis Wood Products. I listen to raindrops on the windshield before hurrying into the corrugated metal building. Inside is dry (though not warm), and, although it was Saturday, the sounds of banging, grinding, and sawing emanate from the “shop.”
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