Oak chips

[Kcwhippet]

It's apparently allowed everywhere, only because no one's thought to legislate against it. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that a lot of the wine buying public wants too taste some oak in their wine. With the cost of good oak barrels so high, I guess a lot of wineries figure this is the way to go. So, if a wine costs about $5 to $7, and there's a goodly amount of oak, it should be easy to figure where it came from.