BARRELS
"Customizing is driving
the industry; there is
no doubt about it."
—Jason Stout, Cooperages 1912
oak's growth rings. Staves are grouped by their ring count, and
coopers construct barrels with staves of the same ring count.
The end result, Stout says, is a barrel tagged with something like
12.9 GPI, or growth rings per inch. This allows winemakers to
customize between fine grain and extra fine grain. "You know
you're getting the extra fine," Stout says.
Cooperages 1912 has a more traditional approach to customizing barrels, but Stout says it comes with "absolute precision."
He adds that a major driver in the push for more custom options
came from World Cooperage and its vast variety of toast profiles.
Stout says the cooperage has developed around 130 distinct
toasting profiles, yet not all of them are used every year. "In any
given season, we're going to have 60-plus toasting profiles that
we're selling in pretty good volume."
As budgets continue to stay tight, Stout says his clients need
their barrel programs to fit their wine styles, and custom options
ensure that happens.
"Customizing is driving the industry; there is no doubt about
it," Stout says. "That comes from the winemakers, they wanted
more options."
Barrel Suppliers
COMPANY
Alain Fouquet French
Cooperage Inc.
ALLARY Tonnellerie
Artisan Barrels & Tanks Inc.
Barrel 21
Barrel Builders Inc.
The Barrel Mill
Barrels Best-Vadai World Trade
Enterprise Barrels/Wine LLC
Barrels Unlimited Inc.
Bastos LLC
Bayard Fox Selections
Black Swan Cooperage LLC
The Boswell Co.
TW Boswell
Bouchard Cooperages
Brick Packaging LLC
Canton Cooperage
Carolina Wine Supply
Charlois Cooperage USA
Cooperages 1912 Napa
Cork Supply USA
Demptos Napa Cooperage
DeWine
Fusion Designer Barrels
PHONEWEBSITE
(707) 265-0996 alainfouquet.com
(503) 307-1593 tonnellerie-allary.com
French
American
And Eastern
European
Barrels,
Oak Add Ins,
Casks and
Tanks
Nadalie, quality from forest to finish
We Select our wood from
the forest and process at
our own mills in the USA
and France
All our staves are air
dried and seasoned for a
minimum of 2 years and
up depending on your
request.
(510) 339-0170 artisanbarrels.com
(707) 746-5704 barrel21.com
(707) 963-9963 barrelbuilders.com
(800) 201-7125 infusionspiral.com
(626) 289-8250 vadaiwinebarrels.com
(562) 438-9901 barrelsunlimited.com
(707) 968-5008 bastosllc.com
(707) 812-4554 bayardfoxselections.com
We control the manufacturing from forest to finish
for every oak product we
make, whether it is for
Barrels, Tanks or Add Ins.
(218) 237-2020 blackswanbarrels.com
(415) 457-3955 boswellcompany.com
(707) 255-5900 twboswell.com
(707) 257-3582 bouchardcooperages.com
(231) 947-4950 brickpackaging.com
(707) 836-9742 cantoncooperage.com
Three Cooperages to Serve You:
Tonnellerie Nadalie in Bordeaux, France
Tonnellerie Marsannay in Burgundy, France
Nadalie USA in Napa Valley, California
(336) 677-6831 carolinawinesupply.com
(707) 508-5006 charloiscooperageusa.com
(707) 255-5900 cooperages1912.com
(707) 746-0353 corksupply.com
(707) 257-2628 demptosusa.com
(510) 501-2733 dewine.us
(707) 255-5900 cooperages1912.com
For more on barrel suppliers, see Wines & Vines' 2013
Buyer's Guide in print or online at winesandvinesbuyersguide.com.
Nadalie U.S.A.
1401 Tubbs Lane,
Calistoga, CA 94515
Tel: 707-942-9301
Fax: 707-942-5037
www.nadalie.com
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