The expertise of our stave-makers is essential to your wine-making. Thanks to our eyes and hands, we select the best wood to design unique products that will match your quest for excellence.
Oak Log offers many benefits to the winemakers concerned with the quality of their wines.
Introduces into your barrels, our Oak Log are designed to extend the life span of your cooperage, by maintaining and improving their aromatic quality.
Oak Log can be used at the beginning of the wine ageing, for red, white and rosé wines, to give complexity and oaky aroma. It can be also be immersed during the alcoholic and malolactic fermentations, reacting with microorganisms, accentuating the wine sweetness and adding structure.
Oak Log gives a unique structure and softness, providing a perfect balance between sweetness and acidity.
Our Oak Log is taken from straight, fine-grained, flawless oak trees that are at least 150 years old. After 2 years of seasonning in an outdoor wood yard, staves are milled to a perfect sphere shape. The stavewood quality Oak Log embodies the French expertise and excellence we use for our barrels. We strive to utilize all of our French merrains and minimize waste. Oak Log guarantees ease of use and will mature the wine similar to a new barrel.
Oak Log, depending on the toasting, gives aromatic complexity combining finess and softness. We offer a selection of 4 heaters:
The wood will provide all of its aroma to the wine.
The oak will integrate fluidly and give structure.
Homogeneous mix between wine and wood flavor, providing balance.
Cooking aromas will add aromatic complexity.
« Let Oak Log write a new story for your barrels, a story where the aromatic life span is extended and your wines are elevated in line with your vision. »
• Easy introduction through bung hole
• Maximum contact surface
• Fixation of properties on wine slow exchange
• Guaranteed hygiene
• During racking, the Oak Log remains in the fine lees
• Extraction by turning the barrel over
Oak Log blends perfectly with the must or wine. In all types of container, Oak Log confers its properties on the wine.
For a successful immersion, Oak Log must be mixed with the wine for 3-10 months, according to desired wine profile. If used during fermentation, perform bâtonage and extract after 3 months. Possible immersion during fermentation or ageing.
Each Oak Log sphere weighs approximatively 6.5 grams, offering a precise dosage for your needs. Available in 2 formats :
Re-sealable, hermetical and food-safe PE bag containing 450 g of Oak Log, enough to treat a 228 L barrel.
PE-HD infusion bag, itself in a hermetically sealed food bag.
Keep Oak Log in its original, hermetically sealed packaging, in a cool and dry place, away from light and chemicals. For a rosé or white wine, recommanded dosage 200 gr/hl. For a red wine, recommanded dosage 250 gr/hl. Consult your oenologist for best use, application and integration with your wines, their aromas and your barrels.
