You mean empty the bottles into the barrel? Or make the wine in the
barrel? Or use the barrel to just store full bottles? Sorry, it's not
clear. For the first two you'll lose pretty much all the CO2 and end
up with a still wine. The third one is fine because the oak barrel
won't have any effect but then why bother?

For reference, Asti is fermented in a tank and the yeast is removed
before all the sugar is consumed. The wine is then filtered for
clarity and bottled, all done under pressure to keep the CO2 in. The
result is a sweet, low alcohol sparkilng wine, with intensely fruity
aroma because of the grape variety used (Muscat) and short contact
with yeast lees.

Pp

On Feb 19, 9:30 pm, wrote:
> I have seen these oak barrels for sale on ebay. I would like to use
> them to store multiple bottles of asti champagne. I wanted to find out
> from someone who knows more about champagne than I do whether this
> will work. I am concerned the barrel will affect the taste and/or not
> allow the champagne to be stored for a long period. (couple of months)
>
> Thanks.