http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- The making of a wine barrel at C Gillet Cooperage. Tonnellerie Claude Gillet (cooperage) shows us how a cooper creates a barrel. An oak wine barrel (barrique, pièce) is made: from oak planks; cutting them in shape, assembling the staves (planks) to a barrel, putting on the metal hoops that keep the barrique (if it's the "Bordeaux size" of 225 litres. Pièce if it's the together Burgundian 228 litre barrel) together, toasting it, i.e. b