I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, The relationship between oak and wine runs deeper than we may think it does on the surface.

Sure, many wines are fermented or aged in several species of oak,

but oak is also used to transport wine and ships and corks come from a

particular species of oak tree. I think it's interesting how the wine world has such a direct

tie to so many different species of oak. The tree genus Quercus, or oak, has over 600 species.

Cork is made from the bark of the Quercus subber tree,

and quarks are a renewable product.

Quercus super trees can live up to 300 years, and the bark regrows every 10 years.

A little more than a century ago, you may have gone to any European dock and found a boat made

from Quercus super or Korg oak. not the bark here, but the hardwood trunky under the bark.

This was used in ships because it was resistant to rot.

And this hypothetical ship may have been packed with barrels of Quercus Rober, French Oak,

Quercus Petria, Russian Oak, all filled with wine, and the barrels may have been stopped with

quarks made from the Quercus super bark. Due to this complex

inner relationship between quirkus forestry and beverage production, entire businesses

have evolved around these trees.

Cooperage is a centuries-old craft

and the most obvious industry that evolved with wine production.

Cork production is another industry that has been made possible by this species.

Cork extraction machines emerged over the last several centuries to remove such quarks, and in

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