{"title":"Our Forests","description":"Welcome to Canadian Oak  manufacturers of barrels in which fine wines can be aged with a truly distinctive Canadian quality...\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe oak used to create Canadian Oak Cooperage wine barrels is the white oak species “Quercus alba,” which grows abundantly only in a very narrow region of southern Ontario.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Canadian Oak Cooperage hopes to create a greater awareness and appreciation of this rich Canadian resource. The trees that are used to make Canadian oak barrels are cut from sustainably managed Canadian forests.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSustainable forest management embodies the principle of \"no tree before its’ time.\"  In sustainably managed forests there is a mixture of young trees coming up in  the understory, mature trees in full reproductive and productive vigor, and old trees whose growth has slowed.  These older trees often block sunlight and rainfall from the younger trees in the understory, and when over-mature, should be removed.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhite Oak \"Quercus alba\" is a North American species, distributed from southern Canada to the lower flood plain of the Mississippi River.  In Canada, it grows only in Ontario, roughly south of a line connecting Toronto and Sarnia. Although pockets of  white oak can be seen along the northern shore of Lake Ontario and as far north as Peterborough.","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/1617\/4449\/collections\/forest.jpg?v=1677772397","url":"https:\/\/warmcanadian.com\/collections\/our-forests.oembed","provider":"Canadian Oak Farm","version":"1.0","type":"link"}