Patent ID: 11866680
Assignee: ARIEL SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS LTD.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C | IPC C

Claim 9:
10. A method of maturing wine comprising circulating maturing wine between at least one wooden barrel and a tank, the wooden barrel having internal walls forming respectively isolated compartments and openings between said compartments, the openings being at alternating ends of succeeding compartments to force said circulating wine into a zig-zag flow path through succeeding lengths of said compartments, said circulating comprising following said flow path through said compartments of said barrel and returning to said tank via flow connectors, said flow connectors configured with said tank and said barrel such that wine flows from an upper part of a lower third of the tank via a wine outlet of said tank by gravitation, into the barrel, circulates through said barrel and returns to an upper part of the tank via a wine inlet of said tank.