Wine fermented in a concrete egg seems to be the trending approach for winemakers across the world. The question is does this egg-shaped vessel bring more to our wine than just the hipster aesthetic?

A new wine trend is hitting eastern Washington, and it has some interesting shapes. ... Winery using concrete eggs for fermentation. Saturday, June 3, ...

Whether you've ever visited a winery and embarked on a tour, or just seen them the movies, if someone says the word winemaking to you, you might conjur up an image of a massive cellar holding ...

The prototype, like concrete egg-shaped fermenters, is based on ancient vessels used for wine. According to Wine Folly, which cites the National Academy of Sciences, these oblong containers date ...

The prototype, like concrete egg-shaped fermenters, is based on ancient vessels used for wine. According to Wine Folly, which cites the National Academy of Sciences, these oblong containers date ...

Fermented in egg-shaped concrete tanks and demi-muids (double-size oak barrels), then aged six to nine months, this 100 percent Marsanne wine has a nose of Anjou pear, jasmine, and crushed oyster ...

Like oak, concrete allows for some oxygen transfer, so there is an impact on texture and body, but because the vessel is neutral, there’s no change to the wine’s inherent flavor.

Concrete eggs do not impart any flavors to the wine as oak does, but they are slightly porous letting in a very small amount of oxygen, and they soften the texture of the wine. This lovely wine ...

This beauty was fermented in stainless steel and neutral oak then aged 8 months in concrete eggs and neutral Austrian oak. The blend was further aged for 3 months in stainless steel tanks before ...