A California winemaker said that the lack of bottles may make his wines too oaky.

Many wines in the world need to be aged in wooden barrels-a lot of things will happen during this time. Tastes can evolve and change. A global pandemic may happen. The supply chain may be disrupted. The price of glass may soar. And there may be bottle shortages. No, this is not what usually happens, but a few years have passed. Obviously, if the winemaker does not have the resources to remove them from the barrels as quickly as possible, some wines may now pay a price.

Business Insider interviewed a winemaker who said that the ongoing bottle shortage could damage his products because there is no bottle to pack and his wine spends longer than expected in the barrel. "Too much oak will make the wine out of balance... [it] masks the characteristic fruit flavor, and the taste is overwhelmingly lignified," Ferron, the owner of the California Longevity Wine Company, was quoted as saying. "Glass is the main ingredient in bottling wine. Imagine you are a biscuit company without flour... Waiting time used to be in hours, but now it is in weeks."

Lang’s problem is far from isolated: bottle shortages are felt in various places such as the Jackson family winery in California-Mike Eaton, vice president of supply chain management for large wineries, recently spoke to NewsNation Now about the shortage-to Onofri Wines in Argentina , Mariana Onofri told Bloomberg that her operations were lagging by six months due to a lack of bottles. "We have never experienced such a shortage," she said.

So what about other packaging options? Stephanie Honig of Napa's Honig Vineyard & Winery told KCBS Radio that this is not a short-term solution for wineries that require early bottling. "There are alternative packaging-cans, boxes," she was quoted as saying, "but if you are struggling to obtain glass, you can't do it on the fly." Therefore, the station reported that regardless of them Like it or not, some wines will have to continue to age.

At the same time, it is ironic that just last month, many wineries were still complaining about the shortage of wood, which made it difficult to purchase wooden barrels from the beginning.