Oak Chips (French) 30g

French Oak Chips 30g give home-made red wine the oaky aroma and flavour you'd expect from a wine aged in oak casks, without the cost of a barrel. They add vanilla and gentle spice notes plus tannin for extra structure.

Key features

• French oak chips, 30g pack
• Gives an oak-aged character to red wines
• Adds aroma, flavour and tannin for more complexity
• Simple to use - just add to the wine

How to use

Add the chips to your wine during or shortly after fermentation. Taste every few days and, once you like the level of oak, rack the wine off the chips with a Simple Syphon.

Goes well with

• Gervin GV8 Red Table Wine Yeast - for full red wines
• Wine Tannin - for even more structure
• Young's Red Wine Enricher - for depth and body

For red wine makers who want a kit or country wine to taste more like an oak-aged bottle. See all our dried fruit, botanicals and oak chips.