oak
Our close proximity to the San Francisco Bay’s water, wind and fog cultivates a microflora found nowhere else on earth, making our flavor profiles distinctive and unique.
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winemakers
Innerstave’s Oak Complement Solutions for Winemakers. Replacing the barrel.
oak sourcing benefits
Just as Innerstave’s proximity to the San Francisco Bay’s microflora makes our premium new French Oak Barrel flavor profiles distinctive and unique, so does our sourcing of oak trees. We have been working with the same trusted oak providers for more than 40 years, giving our products unparalleled consistency in origin.
Our oak products are convection oven toasted, rather than hand-fired. This gives us better control and consistency of our products for winemakers.
Our decades-old process allows winemakers to be more precise with the impact of oak and range of scalability versus what is possible with a traditional oak barrel program.
oak complement advantages
Jason Dodge, Managing Director, Winemaking, gives us a little background about Oak Complements and what to look for when when choosing a supplier.
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use cases
Smoke Taint
Oak is a common fix when grapes are suspected of smoke taint and is an especially low-cost insurance policy when adding low doses at fermentation.
Greenness
Decrease vegetal characteristics in your wines by making small oak additions to mask those oftentimes unwanted characteristics.
testimonials from our winemakers
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