What started as a small project with her husband in 2018 has grown into a full-fledged operation creating handcrafted items from bourbon barrels, including staves, lids, and other components.

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves ... using age-old techniques for curing wood and bending staves into the distinctive containers for fermenting wine.

The name IANVARIVS is scratched lengthwise on exterior of one stave, possibly the merchant or owner of the barrel. The barrel head and surrounding staves are made out of oak and it is relatively ...

As a barrel is being constructed, but before the heads at either end are added, the cooper (barrel maker) chars the inside edges of the staves. This final treatment imparts aromas of vanilla, spice ...