article_snippet: Rare, vintage bottles of whisky can cost anywhere up to $1.4 million (£874,150) and can be aged in oak barrels stored in cellars for years.
article_snippet: The oak sticks are specially designed to ‘age’ the drink by filtering out impurities and infusing the whisky with a more woody flavour similar to pricier tipples.
article_snippet: The oak sticks have lots of grooves cut in The oak sticks to increase the overall-surface area touching the liquid.
article_snippet: The oak sticks are intended to be placed in a bottle or decanter of cheap whisky to replicate the taste of a more expensive tipple.
article_snippet: Tony Peniche explained that wood barrels are used for containing whisky because the wood is cut vertically so that capillaries are not exposed to the liquid, meaning that the wood doesn't slowly seep out of the sides of the wood.
article_snippet: The oak sticks are made by cutting the wood horizontally to provide a ‘shorter distance for whisky to travel through whisky repetitive exposure to the capillaries, so whisky matures much faster and becomes of a much higher quality.