oakey taste

[winophite]

I made a post in the austrailia thread about a Boolaroo Shiraz 2003. It's label indicates a light oak taste along with the red fruity stuff. My question is that I taste fruit in the front of my palate and in the finish, but in the mid-swallow toward the back of my throat kind of the upper area I get a strong "funny" taste perhaps of toasted oak. My suspicion is that this wine may have been cooked in shipment and the oakey flavor is of "burnt" oak. I'm fairly new to wines and I don't really know what an oakey taste should taste like and would welcome any comments from more experienced conniseurs. Thanks.
winophite

[Innkeeper]

I suspect that it was over oaked rather than cooked. I tend to sense oak in the roof of my mouth, and when a wine is cooked I get an overall blah.

[brappy]

Maybe the barrels were charred more than you like. I've never tasted this particular wine so I can't say.

Domain Drouhin pinot noir sits in barrels too charred for my taste. I don't believe the wine is over-oaked, just the barrels over-charred.

It is, however, just my preference.

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