Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...

For centuries, European vintners used monstrous concrete tanks to ferment and store their wines, a technique used in California’s oldest wineries before Prohibition. But when the state’s wine industry ...

Despite the romance of wine cellars filled with oak barrels, most modern wine is aged in massive stainless steel tanks. Those tanks allow winemakers to consistently produce vast quantities of wine to ...

An abandoned concrete barge has been sitting off the coast of DuPont for more than 60 years. If you time it right, at low tide you can follow a long sandbar littered with barnacled logs and metal ...

Project managing director Louis Bon said the concrete roofs provided reinforced protection for the cryogenic tanks, which stand nearly 47m tall with a volume of 165,000cu m, the equivalent of 160 ...

The Richland County Land Bank provided an update on the former Westinghouse cleanup along East Fifth Street Wednesday regarding concrete tanks found encased in metal under and around the factory's ...

Firefighters rescued an injured demolition worker from an abandoned underground water storage tank in Washington Township after the concrete lid caved in, causing him to drop 17 feet to the bottom.