Hey! I just had whisky last night. The lady was saying it's aged in wooden casks made of white oak.
Oh yum! that sounds awesome
A barrel or tun is cylinder and hollow with staves and metal hoops to hold it together.
Nice, what other cool info do you have?
Wine is shipped in barrels too.
Oh nice. I need a few barrels then
. Due to the perishable nature of wood material it is difficult to trace the usage of barrels in history. The Greek historian Herodotus noted that ancient Mesopotamians used barrels made of palm wood to transport wine along the Euphrates. Palm is a difficult material to bend and fashion into barrels, however, and wine merchants in different regions experimented with different wood styles to find a better wood source. The use of oak has been prevalent in winemaking for at least two millennia, first coming into widespread use during the time of the Roman
Barrel
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They were originally made of wooden staves and bound by wood or metal hoops. 
Traditionally, the barrel was also a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of . Wine was shipped in barrels of . Barrel has also come into use as a generic term for a wooden cask of any