Conner’s Wine Cellar is Chilliwack’s first and only on-premise wine making facility to offer oak barrel aging services! The practice of using oak barrels to store and age wine is a centuries old tradition. Wine aged in oak barrels is enhanced with the addition of vanilla and oak overtones. Oak Barrels also allow for a small amount of evaporation of the contents during the aging period. French oak is considered to be the most highly desires for wine barrels, as their forests produce wood with distinctive characteristics involving tightness of the wood grain as well as the amount of oak flavors that are imparted to the wine. Tight grained wood tends to impart the Oak characteristics (vanilla,... »View More