oak

And since it typically spends little or no time in new oak barrels, all its flavors are fruit, not oak.

The road cuts through a thick oak forest and opens briefly near a meadow where sturdy and patient Basque horses graze and pose for photos with passers-by, mostly Camino pilgrims.

When they passed under an old oak tree, Roz explained that old trees could support a broad swath of forest.

The children wandered out behind the farm buildings, through a clearing, and over to an old oak tree.

The former cattle ranches, one known as the “Hershey Ranch” and the other as the “Carothers Ranch,” include grasslands, oak woodlands and dark evergreen forests.