Illustrated Wine A-Z (Revised 2022)

O for Oak is maybe my personal favourite.

Oak wasn't the first vessel where fermenting juice sat
Clay amphora did that job some millennia before that

Now barrels are costly, so chips and staves are common
(Can't compare handmade noodles to packaged ramen!)

Worse even industrial oak-extracts powdered and liquid
Used with even more additives to make colour vivid

Vital sensory effects develop from authentic oak cask
Producers, give up oak-barrel pretense is all that I ask