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📣 Bouchard Cooperage Supplier Spotlight: Schneckenleitner Austrian Oak

Since 2019, Bouchard Cooperages has proudly represented Schneckenleitner, Austria’s premier producer of large-format oak puncheons, casks, and tanks, in North America. Family-owned and operated since 1880 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Schneckenleitner produces over 180 large-format oak tanks annually for the world’s most prestigious cellars. 🍇✨

Vertically Integrated Stave Mill
From forest to cooperage, Schneckenleitner controls every step. Logs are hand-selected from Austria’s tight-grain Weidling forest and seasoned on-site along the Ybbs River, benefiting from a unique microclimate for optimal oak seasoning.

New Product Offerings
Puncheons (500L–800L): Available in Austrian Oak Elegance (AOE) for whites and light reds, and Austrian Oak Complex (AOC) for richer whites and darker reds. Expect delicate spice and impeccable craftsmanship.
Ovals (10 HL+): A cellar space-maximizing favorite, perfect for fermenting and aging whites with less lees-to-juice contact.
Rounds (10 HL+): Ideal for reds—popular in France's Rhône Valley, Bordeaux, and Italy—with customizable hatch door placement.
NEW! Conical Tanks (10 HL+): Versatile for both reds and whites, Schneckenleitner’s conical tanks are now available in North America.

Expanded Cooperage
In 2022, Schneckenleitner unveiled their newly renovated cooperage, bringing everything—craftsmanship, wood aging, and production—under one roof in their stunning river and forest setting.

📌 2025 Pricing is now available! Start planning early to ensure delivery before harvest.
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Egginox: The Stainless Steel Wine Egg Transforming Modern Winemaking

Meet Egginox, the innovative stainless steel egg revolutionizing winemaking! Founded in 2019 by three friends in Slovenia, Egginox was born from a simple idea during a cellar tasting: What if a wine egg could be crafted in stainless steel?

Today, Egginox is expertly crafted at Slometal in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, using top-quality AISI 304 stainless steel. Each tank is meticulously designed with precision-welded, polished interiors that facilitate easy tartrate removal and hygienic cleaning. With unique features like tasting taps, racking valves, and customizable logos, Egginox brings a new level of practicality and customization to winemakers. 🍇✨

Why stainless steel? The material’s 0% porosity means no oxygen exchange, preserving fruit purity and keeping wines fresh and bright. Its egg shape naturally suspends lees, enhancing texture while respecting the vineyard's unique flavors. The result? A wine with vibrant energy and depth.

From Friuli to Napa, Egginox is gaining fans with winemakers of aromatic whites, sparkling wines, and light reds who seek to amplify fruit expression with minimal oxygen impact. 🌍🍷

Read more about Egginox on our blog: 
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Drunk Turtle📍 Pontadera, Tuscany - Italy

History
Drunk Turtle is a family-owned company led by the Brini family and located in Pontedera, Tuscany, Italy. The company was founded in 2014 by a group of wine industry professionals, architects, and engineers who repurposed an ancient Roman concrete recipe: "Cocciopesto" for building wine fermentation and maturation vessels called Opus. The name Drunk Turtle is derived from Italy's Slow food movement, the extremely hard shell of a turtle and the love for wine.

Today
The Brini family are now the sole owners of the company and are also involved in the wine industry with their family winery: Il Conventino, located in Montepulciano, Italy, and their Tuscan gin brand: Ginepraio. Through years of research and development with the University of Pisa, Drunk Turtle has perfected their Cocciopesto recipe and currently produces more than 200 Opus a year which are sold predominantly in France, Italy, and other important winemaking countries.

Material - Cocciopesto
Cocciopesto is an ancient Roman building material used in the creation of the Roman Empire's aqua ducts. The material is a mix of stone, gravel, clay, terracotta, sand and marl (soft marble) brought together with a binding material that includes a small amount of cement (hence a preparation treatment with tartaric acid is needed). Consequently, Cocciopesto has a porosity similar to concrete, so about half of that of a barrel.

Production
The current offering of Drunk Turtle Cocciopesto Opus for the export market includes 500L, 1000L, and 1,500L Opus. The Opus is made in single-cast molds that are filled with precise mixed ratios of the Cocciopesto aggregate and then left to sit for over two months to dry and harden. Accessories are added before and after and all Opus see a rigid water testing protocol for any leaking.

Accessories
All Opus are equipped with standard accessories that include a tasting tap, external hatch door, 2-inch TC racking valve, 2-inch TC partial discharge valve, and forklift-friendly adjustable feet. Cooling flags, glass bungs, (known as a Colmatore), external logos, or paintings can be included upon request. Before using, please follow the included protocol for the preparation of your Opus with a light tartaric acid treatment that should be repeated every year before harvest.

Winemaking & Styles of Wines
The Opus's different sizes and winemaker-friendly accessories make the vessel extremely versatile.

Read more on our blog: 
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Spotlight on CANADELL Trie-Sur-Baïse - Midi-Pyrenées, France

History:
In 1939, Lauriano Canadell from Catalonia Spain escaped Franco's regime and installed himself in Southern France. His journey in the French Oak industry started in the firewood and charcoal industries but soon after his son Jacques Sr. joined, they were selling higher quality oak to furniture makers and cooperages and founded their first workshop in Trie-Sur-Baïse.

Jacques Jr. Canadell:
In 1970 Jacques Jr. joined the company, and emboldened his family's DNA of being a forest operator and "merrandier" - cooperage stave producer. The family company increased its forestry activity in Central France and the Parisian region and created its second stave production supply hub in Ully-Saint-Georges right outside of Paris.

Today - Frédéric Canadell:
In 1999 Fourth generation frederic Canadell joined the family company and is the current CEO. Frédéric focused the company towards the cooperage industry through cooperage acquisitions in Burgundy, new cooperage startups in Southern France as well as the creation of an oenological line of premium French Oak adjuncts: CANADELL.

Adjuncts for Enology:
Initiated in 2000, Canadell delivers a full range of premium oak products that are classically made through fire or convection toasting. Canadell ensures the quality and consistency of its oak adjuncts by overseeing the entire manufacturing process, from selecting trees in the forest to seasoning, fabricating, toasting, and packaging. This 100% vertical integration gives winemakers full traceability and confidence in the impact its oak will have on their wine and products.

Fermentation Oak Chips:
Untoasted and toasted chips are the indispensable tool for a quick and efficient aromatic extraction. They are a flexible and economical method for oak extraction and contribution during fermentation and / or aging. They help add structure to wines, increase length and contribute tannin and color stability.

Dominos:
Dominos are perfect for the fermentation of whites and post fermentation aging of reds or whites. Due to their size and format, they are perfect for short aging and contribute oak flavors and aromas that are comparable to CANADELL'S staves.

Barrel Bung Inserts:
The bung inserts are to be inserted through the bung of the barrel and are available in different toast profiles. The results are barrel-like and intended for longer aging processes. Bung insert trials allow for the perfect opportunity to get familiar with CANADELL'S high quality oak profile.

Tank Staves:
Offered in a variety of both fire and convection toasts, CANADELL'S staves are extremely barrel-like with the fire-toasted staves showing more complexity and roundness on the palate while convection-toasted staves are more subtle and show better integration early on.

 

Spotlight on Three Different Non-Oak Tank Suppliers Currently in Stock to Think About for Vintage 2024!

WINEGLOBE by FAMILLE PAETZOLD SARL - Bordeaux, France

Represents the reference, neutral high-end cutting-edge vessel found in the most prestigious cellars for fermenting and aging terroir-driven whites and red wines. - "We have found the ideal vessel to seek purity, freshness, and identity - Stéphane Derencourt".
 
Volume - 220L
Composition - Borosilicate Glass
Pore Diamater - 0 microns
Porosity - 0%

TAVA - Mori - Trentino, Italy
 
Leaders in amphora exclusively produce ceramic amphora specifically for winemaking from a patented mixture of local clay that was developed through years of research with enologists and ceramic technicians

Volume - 230L - 1,600L
Composition - Ceramic clay
Pore Diameter - 0.008 microns
Porosity - 5%

Drunk Turtle Amphorae - Pisa - Tuscany, Italy

Produces opus out of Cocciopesto: an ancient Italian blend of crushed stone and terracotta. The egg-shaped Opus encourages lees suspension and the thermal inertia qualities make the material optimal for fermenting and aging both whites and reds.

Volume - 500L - 1,500L
Composition - Cocciopesto
Pore Diameter - Varied but low
Porosity - 3% - 5%

 

Tonnellerie Maury French Gold Medal Olympic Roots

With the Paris Olympics approaching, a special spotlight on Tonnellerie Maury & Fils and its French Olympic Roots.

Serge Maury - French Olympian:
Development of the cooperage was undertaken by the second generation cooper: Serge Maury who expanded the activity of the Maury cooperage and solidified its reputation among Bordeaux's most important Châteaux. In addition to Serge's passion for the wine and cooperage industry, he loved sailing and in 1972 would win a Gold Medal for France in the "Finn" sailing discipline at the Munich Summer Olympic Games--after also being the quadruple French Champion and double European and World Champion.

Today - Mathieu Maury:
The third generation of the Maury cooperage now sees Mathieu Maury at its helm, who at a young age joined his father at the cooperage's Quai des Chartrons' location to repair barrels. Mathieu has grown production to between 3,000 to 4,000 barrels annually. Mathieu and his team oversee all parts of the business and Mathieu sees it as his responsibility to consistently visit and taste with his customers throughout the year, in order to ensure that he has his finger on the pulse of current vintages and how his barrels and puncheons are complimenting his beloved Bordeaux Châteaux partners.

The Cooperage:
The cooperage is now located in Saint-Caprais, right outside of Bordeaux, and benefits from Bordeaux's maritime cold, rainy, and humid weather to optimally naturally season 100% Quercus Petraea French Oak staves. For barrels reserved for wine production, a selection of either Center of France Tight Grain or Center of France Extra Tight Grain oak is available. Open-grain Limousin oak can also be requested for spirits production

Range & MC2 Toast:
Traditionally speaking, the Maury style has matched its Medium Toast with Bordeaux's warmer and more mature vintages, and its Medium Plus Toast with cooler and fresher vintages. However, with a changing climate, style of wines, and after conversations with producers, Maury created a Medium Long toast (positioned between Medium and Medium Plus) as well as the now-famous "MC2" toast that is used on leaner and fruitier styles of Bordeaux varietals. 

Supplier Spotlight: European Coopers Hungary, Palotabozsok, Hungary

History:European Coopers Hungary was founded in 1997 by Master Cooper Kristóf Flódung together with renowned representatives of the Italian wine industry including Piero Antinori from Tuscany's Marchesi Antinori, Eugenio Gamba from Piemonte's Botti Gamba and Jacopo Mazzei from Tuscany. Kristóf had already worked in the cooperage industry for decades at the renowned Rieger large format cooperage. The goal of European Coopers Hungary was to produce high-quality barrels for noble Italian wines.

Today:
European Coopers Hungary produces roughly 5,000 barrels a year at their Southern Hungary facility located in Palotabozsok where coopering has a long tradition. Since it's inception of coopering barrels meant for noble Italian wines, the cooperage has expanded production for export markets and employs a team of 10 coopers. Kristóf oversees all technical aspects of the cooperage while Dr. Katalin Pintacsi oversees daily activities.

The Cooperage:European Coopers Hungary has its stave mill on-site and therefore oversees the entire barrel-making process from the selection of the logs, splitting of the oak, air drying of the staves, and ultimately production of the barrels. 100% Hungarian Quercus Patraea oak (same species as French oak) is sourced from two locations in Hungary including the Zemplén Mountains in Northern Hungary and the Mecsek Mountains in Southern Hungary.

Production:
Staves are stacked three levels high and left to season naturally outside of the cooperage for a minimum of three years before coopering to remove the harsher tannins. Barrels at European Coopers Hungary are fire-bent and either fire-toasted using pieces of oak from the same logs the staves are made from, or convection-toasted. To ensure consistency at toasting, only several coopers manage the toasting room.

Range:The European Coopers Hungary's traditional range includes 100% Hungarian oak barrels and puncheons (225/228L - 500L) where the level of air drying is 3 years. Toasting profile ranges from L, LL, M, ML, M+, and Heavy. The Hungarian Blend includes 50% Mecsek and 50% Tokay however 100% tight-grain Tokay oak can be selected for a surcharge. The special Kristof label barrel represents European Coopers Hungary's premier barrel and is the tightest grain selection of Mecsek and Tokay oak. For white or light red wines, European Coopers Hungary convection-based Radiant White and Red toast can be used to better promote fruit notes.

Why European Coopers Hungary?
100% Hungarian Quercus Patraea oak has more accentuated and darker spice characteristics than French oak and the descriptor of "Christmas Spice" is often used to describe the barrel's stylistically.

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BILLON Spotlight - Beaune, France

History:

TONNELLERIE BILLON SA was founded in 1947 by Gaston BILLON and is located in Beaune Burgundy. The cooperage was purchased by the Damy family to become the sister cooperage of Meursault's Tonnellerie DAMY. Positioned in the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuit's largest city; Beaune, the cooperage has built a strong reputation amongst BurgundToday
Tonnellerie Billon annually produces around 10,000 barrels a year and has 2 hectares dedicated for wood seasoning, 2 hectares for barrel production, and a 4,000 square meter shop workshop that employs 20 coopers. The current CEO of the cooperage, Vincent Damy was awarded the prestigious "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" title in 2007 and overseas production at Tonnellerie Billon. y chardonnay and pinot producers.
 
Today:
Tonnellerie Billon annually produces around 10,000 barrels a year and has 2 hectares dedicated for wood seasoning, 2 hectares for barrel production, and a 4,000 square meter shop workshop that employs 20 coopers. The current CEO of the cooperage, Vincent Damy was awarded the prestigious "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" title in 2007 and overseas production at Tonnellerie Billon.

The Cooperage:
Tonnellerie Billon located in Beaune represents a state-of-the-art cooperage equipped with the most up-to-date Monnot cooperage machines. Oak is sourced from 10 different stave mills including longtime partner, Merrains du Jura located in the Jura region of France. To reduce its carbon footprint, the cooperage is involved in local forest replanting initiatives with partner Pépinières Naudet but is also planting different species of trees around the cooperage to encourage biodiversity in its wood park. All remaining bits of wood scraps are used to heat the cooperage during the winter in a furnace.

Range:
The Billon traditional range includes French oak and acacia forest-origin barrels and puncheons (115L - 820L) where the level of air-dry (2-Y up to 5-Y) can be selected along with the toasting profile that includes: L, LL, Chauffe 180 min, M, ML, M+ and Heavy. However, following years of research and collaboration with selected Domaines, Billon also offers an "Innovation Range" of barrels that are based either on grain tightnesses, forest blends, steam bending, and toasting profiles done only over embers.

Why Tonnellerie Billon?
Tonnellerie Billon is one of the most traditional and historical cooperages in Burgundy. Located in Beaune, the cooperage is near the Côte de Beaune's most famous chardonnay producers and the Côte de Nuits' most famous pinot noir producers. Billon barrels have traditionally offered a stunning ability to respect the wine and be true to the varietal by showcasing the fruit on the nose and palate. What Billon barrels do contribute to the wine is a subtle aromatic savoriness and slight structure with lots of length, verticality, and an enhanced mineral finish on the palate. 

Introducing TAVA Amphora – Handmade Italian Ceramic Amphora

Bouchard Cooperages is extremely happy to announce our representation of TAVA: The Italian handmade ceramic amphora producer located in Mori Trentino Italy.


Acting as the exclusive distributor of TAVA in North America we believe that TAVA is the reference amphora for winemaking worldwide.

History
TAVA is a family-owned and operated company led by third-generation Francesco Tava and located in Mori Trentino, Italy. For over three generations, TAVA has been producing ceramic-based products. In 2013, Francesco Tava took over his family business and following successful tasting trials decided to reposition his family company toward producing ceramic amphora specifically for winemaking. With generational expertise in ceramics, the TAVA amphorae were entirely conceived and developed only for winemaking.

Today
TAVA amphorae are made from a patented mixture of local clay that is certified and tested regularly for composition and consistency, and is 100% natural free of any colorants or additives. TAVA amphorae have been developed through years of research with enologists and ceramic technicians and are currently used by over 1,500 wine producers in more than 30 different countries.


Production
TAVA amphorae are entirely made by hand via setting ceramic clay in molds and are then fired at temperatures between 2192F and 2300F. The higher the temperature you fire at, the smaller the pores are on the amphorae, and hence the lower the porosity. During the initial drying process, humidity and temperature are controlled via evaporative coolers and the presence of vegetation inside the production site. The presence of vegetation is crucial for regulating humidity and temperature levels, thus bringing countless benefits to both worker's conditions and the final product. Each amphora produced has a serial number for complete traceability.

Porosity
The standard porosity of TAVA amphora is similar to that of an oak barrel at 5%. However, depending on the customer's request, the porosity can be higher or lower than 5% allowing for a slow and consistent rate of micro oxidation. The controlled porosity and therefore the oxygen permeability of TAVA amphorae is guaranteed by the know-how acquired through years of experimentation, and by the use of specific ovens characterized by high precision in temperature regulation, homogeneity, and control. No other amphora producer we are aware of has conducted the volume and detail of testing on oxygen transfer rates.


Research and Accessibility
TAVA has funded independent research activities that involved several independent laboratories, with detailed studies regarding porosity, sanitation and chemical inertia, available on our website. The study and understanding of how the firing temperature and firing gradient of amphorae could influence the chemical properties of ceramics was key in the development of the TAVA amphorae. The quality of the clay and the precise and controlled temperature of cooking give TAVA amphora a unique chemical inertia, which independent studies have proven to show no migration of metals or undesirable materials and no effect on the chemical properties of wine. The ceramic material tested, thanks also to its low porosity, proved not to be susceptible to microbial colonization and easy to sanitize.

Our experience and conversation with winemakers show TAVA Amphorae to be the most versatile in terms of user-friendly accessories, including forklift friendly stands and other unique options.

Winemaking & Styles of Wines
All three sizes (320L, 750L, 1600L) of amphorae are equipped with winemaking-friendly accessories including a sealable lid, tasting tap, full discharge valve, and pallet jack / forklift-friendly stand. The 1600L amphora can also come with an external hatch door.

Due to TAVA's standard porosity similar to that of an oak barrel, the amphora works best for the fermentation and aging of all styles of whites or the elevage of both lighter and more full-bodied reds. TAVA Amphora will respect your vineyard site and the typicity of the varietals while contributing texture to the palette and brightness and freshness from an aromatic perspective.


The Bouchard Cooperages Team Wishes You All the Best for the Start of 2024

We hope that warm holidays were spent with family and friends. To all those who have worked with us and our family of suppliers over the years, thank you so much. We are grateful and proud to be included in your winemaking programs! With the Unified Trade Show right around the corner, the Bouchard Cooperages team is pleased to release the 2024 pricing that can be found online for the below suppliers:

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Oak:
Billon (Beaune) - Damy (Meursault) - Maury (Bordeaux) - Master Coopers (USA & Burgundy) - European Coopers (Hungary) - Schneckenleitner (Austria) - Canadell (Southern France)

Non - Oak:
Wineglobe (Bordeaux) - Vin et Terre (Bordeaux) - CLC Vasche (Italy) - Drunk Turtle (Italy) - Egginox (Slovenia)

We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento, on visits, and at events throughout the year.

The warmest of regards and cheers to a great year!
The Bouchard Cooperages Team
 

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