Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Step inside some of California's most progressive wineries these days, and you'll see concrete tanks instead of stainless, in ...

That tank is used by Columbia Crest to hold some of its most popular wines, such as the Two Vines merlot. Spokane Industries produces two types of wine tanks, for fermentation and storage.

Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...

For centuries, European vintners used monstrous concrete tanks to ferment and store their wines, a technique used in California’s oldest wineries before Prohibition. But when the state’s wine industry ...

[caption id="attachment_24148" align="alignright" width="343" caption="Thomas George Estates received the first Sonoma Coast Stone egg-shaped tanks Aug. 12 ...