I couldn't help but get a little saddened my this article in Reuters. Both old time taverns and winemakers alike will be deeply affected when the tradition of hand creating oak barrels for wine dies out and is replaced by bag in a box technology. Do I think this will be an epidemic throughout the world? No. But the fact that younger crafts-people are not being developed will make many crafts die away slowly by attrition.
LISBON (Reuters Life!) - The centuries-old tradition of making and repairing oak wine barrels in southern Portugal is ending, pushed out by steel barrels, "bag in box" packaging and a younger generation's disinterest in the craft.
"There were 'tanoarias' (barrel-making workshops) everywhere, this always existed as a tradition," says Dona Irene, an octogenarian tavern-keeper who has been serving wine from oak barrels for 57 years.
Read the full story from Reuters India here: article
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