Abstract: A wooden cask for storing and aging wine. The cask may comprise a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel, a rear panel and two side panels assembled together to define an internal storage volume. The cask may further comprise at least two associated pairs of vertical beams forming a buttress against external faces of two opposite side panels, and at least two compression rods per an associated pair of vertical beams. The compression rods may exert a horizontal force tending to bring together opposite vertical beams of a pair of associated vertical beams and opposite side panels against which these two vertical beams rest. The compression rods may pass at a distance above a surface of the top panel along an external face thereof or below the bottom panel in the vicinity of lower edges of at least one of the front, rear, and side panels.