| The tun itself came to mean a specific size equal to four hogsheads or about 208 gallons. |
| But numerous cards depict slaves picking tobacco, pressing it into hogsheads for transport, and sometimes consuming it. |
| So he relied largely on claret, buying four hogsheads of 24 dozen bottles of Margaux and one hogshead of Lafite every three months. |
| That was the equivalent at the time of buying 300,000 cows or the same number of hogsheads of strong liquor. |
| Wine-maker Geoff Merrill then matures it in American oak hogsheads for two years. |
| More modern XXth century buildings allow the wine to mature in a huge variety of containers: oak casks and barrels, half hogsheads, conical vats. |
