BARRELS
stainless steel hatches for loading or unloading the barrels.
Tonnellerie Allary offers a 600-liter barrel
equipped with a stainless steel door with
a diameter of 220 millimeters. The barrel
comes with a rack that can be equipped
with casters for rolling, and the door can be
installed on the head or the bilge.
Seguin Moreau Napa Cooperage named
its large 600-liter cask fermentor the
"Micro-Vinificator" and describes it as the
The rotary oak fermentor by Fabbrica Botti
Gamba is equipped with a fermentation lid.
"ideal compromise" between the benefits
of fermenting in wooden vats and the control of barrels. The Seguin Moreau model
is similar to the other large formats except
it has steel paddles on the inside that help
break up the cap as the barrel turns.
Italian cooper Fabbrica Botti Gamba
offers large-format oak vessels for
fermentation in 400-, 500-, 600- and
700-liter capacities.
Because oak offers some oxygen permeability, Gamba says the large-format
barrel leads to less reductive aromas and
improved fermentation because the yeast
is in the presence of some oxygen. Fermentation trials conducted by the cooper
also indicated that temperatures inside the
barrel never went higher than 82ºF.
Jeff Ghidossi, the cooper's U.S. representative, said the rack is equipped with
a drive bolt so the vessel can be rotated
with a power drill. "There is some benefit
to the wood-to-wine ratio on larger vessels, though that is a winemaker's stylistic
choice," he said.
While still more laborious and time
consuming than fermenting fruit in a tank
or a bin, barrel fermentation is getting a
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tions.
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