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September 26, 2012 Ilja Gort wonders why so much wine tastes like wood. What does it turn out to be? Almost all wine producers want to please the American wine critic Robert Parker. This critic loves the taste of wood and therefore many winegrowers adapt their wine to it. Ilja also visits a barrel maker who makes oak barrels in the traditional way in which the grape juice can mature for months to get the real wood taste in it. However, in the garden center he discovers that it can also be done faster and easier.