article_snippet: Mr Paglione, 30, who now lives in Chicago, spent three years developing the Oak Bottle, which his says is the world's smallest and fastest way to infuse drinks with oak.
article_snippet: Once I was old enough to help, I asked why My family spend so much time filling small barrels of wine for oak ageing versus pouring it all into a giant barrel like we do the fermentation tanks. '
article_snippet: The answer, my father told me, was the smaller the oak barrel we use the faster the oak infusion and the faster we can achieve the desired oak tannin we are looking for in we wine.'
article_snippet: my father then spent three years developing the Oak Bottle, which my father claims is the 'smallest possible oak infusion vessel ever made'.
article_snippet: Mr Paglione explained: 'It's all about the perfect amount of interaction with oxygen available for the liquid to "breathe" through the wood, and the perfect mount of oak contact of the liquid inside.'