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Welcome To Oregon Barrel Works
Oregon Barrel Works is dedicated to designing, producing and importing the highest quality oak products for the wine industry. Our goal is to work closely with winemakers to achieve their desired expression of wine and wood.
All of our wares are custom made from the highest quality Oregon, French and Hungarian oak and handcrafted with care by skilled craftsmen. Oregon Barrel Works offers a full line of products including wooden tanks, barrels, barrel renewal systems and barrel alternatives.

Oregon Barrel Works: News Update

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12 to 3 pm-Oregon Barrel Works to build barrels in the streets of McMinnville. Join us for Who´s on Third? Celebrating Oregon´s Favorite Main Street. Come and see the Oregon Barrel Works crew bend and toast Oregon and French oak barrels over an open fire in the streets of McMinnville.

Saturday, August 8th , 2009 10am to 12pm- PCC Connoisseur of Oregon Wine Join Rick DeFerrari for an up-close look at this unique facility. What a great opportunity to learn about the barrel making process! Rick DeFerrari shares his experiences I the French barrel making community and tell us about Oregon Oak Barrels.

Saturday, September 12, 2009 10am - 12pm Barrel Making 101: The Craft within the Craft VINOLOGY "Barrel Making 101: The Craft Within the Craft September 12, 2009 10am - 12pm Taught by Rick de Ferrari of Oregon Barrel works experience the craft of barrel making and how if effects your wines during this class held at Elk Cove Vineyards

Link to Oregon Barrel Works article in The Oregonian November 7^th 2006, by Joan Cirillo.

http://olive.live.advance.net/foodday/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/living/1162585511251420.xml&coll=7

Link to Oregon Barrel Works Article in Wines and Vines, Winemaking with Oak Alternatives, July 2006 issue, by Tina Caputo.

http://www.winesandvines.com/feature_july_06_oak.html

2007 IPNC: Oregon Barrel Works Barrel Firing. Rick DeFerrari, and the Oregon Barrel Works team, demonstrates over an open fire how they bend and toasts barrels made from oak grown in Hungary, France, America and Oregon. For more info go to www.ipnc.org
More About the 2006 IPNC and Oregon Barrel Works barrel firing at Pinotfile Volume 5, Issue 45, Aug. 2006 at: http://www.princeofpinot.com/pinotfile/05_45.pdf

Oregon Barrel Works, Oregon Oak barrel sales for $752 at the 2007 Salud Auction. Salud works to provide access to healthcare services for Oregons seasonal vineyard workers and their families. For more information: www.saludauction.org

Mel Knox, Barrel Broker's new website:

www.knoxbarrels.com

In 2001, after an eight year partnership, Rick DeFerrari, purchased Francois Freres D'Oregon from the Francois Freres Group and created Oregon Barrel Works.
Oregon Barrel Works has a strong relationship with the Francois Freres Group and in conjunction with Mel Knox represent their barrels in Oregon, Washington and Canada.
Oregon Barrel Works also now represent Taransaud in the same regions.

Old World Tradition New World Innovation

Oregon Barrel Works

Old world traditions New world innovations
Full Service Cooperage and Pacific Northwest Rep for:
Francois Freres / Taransaud / Oregon Barrel Works