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Barrique

Viniculture
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A small oak barrel, traditionally holding about 225 liters, used for fermentation or aging.

Detailed Definition
A barrique gives wine a confined wooden room in which oxygen, toast, tannin, and time quietly negotiate. Its oak may suggest vanilla, spice, smoke, or cedar, while its rounded form carries the intimacy of a vessel held close to the body. In poetry, the barrique can become a chamber of patience, where raw juice is sheltered, altered, and taught the slow grammar of becoming.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The barrique held the harvest in a dark wooden hush,” uses the French term for a small oak barrel, commonly about 225 liters; “Vanilla rose from the barrique like warm dust”; A poet may use the barrel’s oak, toast, and slow aging to symbolize patience; “Each barrique was a wooden stanza, seasoning the wine between verses.”
Additional Notes
A barrique is usually an oak barrel of about 225 liters, especially associated with Bordeaux. Its small size gives wine relatively high oak contact, contributing flavors such as vanilla, toast, spice, and sometimes tannin. Barrel age, toast level, and the number of previous uses affect its impact.
Also Known As
Bordeaux Barrel French Oak Barrel
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