How many producers still mature VP in pipes?
Posted: 09:37 Sun 09 Mar 2008
The romantic notion of VP's 'two years in wood' conjures up images of the 550 litre pipes stacked in the lodges.
However, I am told that the reality is a little more mundane, and that most VP is now stored in larger vessels of varying sizes.
The reason I ask is that it seems an amusing notion to take a leaf out of the whisky makers book, and arrange a 'single pipe bottling' - after sampling as many as possible first of course..
Such a bottling could be made multi format, so the old chestnut about the maturation speed of different formats could, eventually, be properly tested.
- So I wonder which producers might be in a position to discuss this?
Tom
However, I am told that the reality is a little more mundane, and that most VP is now stored in larger vessels of varying sizes.
The reason I ask is that it seems an amusing notion to take a leaf out of the whisky makers book, and arrange a 'single pipe bottling' - after sampling as many as possible first of course..
Such a bottling could be made multi format, so the old chestnut about the maturation speed of different formats could, eventually, be properly tested.
- So I wonder which producers might be in a position to discuss this?
Tom