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Let your clients taste the effect of your toasts and wood on their wines
What if your clients could calmly compare the exact imprint of each of your toasts on the same wine? It is now possible with the Vinotte®!
All your expertise lies in nuances: a toast that goes further, an oak species, a more or less tight grain, notes of almond, coffee, toast… These differences are the heart of your trade but often remain difficult to demonstrate without a tasting.
Vinovae reconditions the same wine aged in your different barrels into a sample format (2 cl, 4 cl, 5 cl, and 10 cl) called La Vinotte®. The patented process developed by Vinovae allows for the total preservation of the organoleptic qualities of each wine for 3 to 12 months, depending on the sample size. Result: your client tastes the difference between two toasts without having to travel.
It is a new way to prove your work: through comparative tasting, at a distance, with an accuracy that only our patented reconditioning process can guarantee.
Meeting the commercial challenges of your cooperage
As a cooper, the quality of your wood and the precision of your toasts are the true value of your work. Whatever your issue, we support you with adapted solutions to help your clients discover your expertise.
- Do you want to demonstrate the real influence of your toasts on a wine without having to make your clients travel for a tasting?
- Would you like to let your clients taste the effect of several barrels on the same wine, but mobilizing so many casks for a trial remains costly and cumbersome?
- Does palate fatigue limit the number of barrels you can have tasted during a session?
- Would you like to be able to organize blind tastings, with numbered samples, so that your client’s judgment is not influenced by what they know about each barrel?
- Do you wish to modernize your commercial approach and stand out against competition where expertise is sometimes hard to distinguish?
The Vinotte®, the solution designed to enhance your expertise
Here is how the Vinotte®, Vinovae’s sample format, meets the constraints of cooperages:
- Comparison becomes possible anywhere. We ship samples directly to your clients, all over UK and internationally.
- Samples stable for several months, allowing for tastings to be spread over several sessions and tasted calmly, thus limiting palate saturation and scheduling constraints.
- A wine or spirit protected from oxidation from the moment of reconditioning, which perfectly restores the profile of each toast.
- Easy-to-number samples to organize blind tastings and collect unbiased judgment.
- The right dose served for each trial without mobilizing your barrels.
- An unprecedented format that modernizes your commercial approach and distinguishes you from other workshops.
How to use the Vinotte® in your commercial approach?
Our sample format opens up concrete uses for coopers who wish to make a difference.
Offer the same wine aged in your different toasts or different wood species. Your client tastes the profiles side by side and immediately perceives the imprint of each barrel.
Send a box of Vinottes® to a distant winemaker or cellar master and schedule a remote tasting with ease.
Let foreign prospects and clients taste your profiles without the logistical constraints of a cask. A lightweight format that travels easily and carries your expertise beyond your usual borders.
Offer a structured comparative tasting on your stand rather than just a speech. Your prospects leave with tangible proof of what distinguishes your barrels and your expertise.
A tasting perfectly identical to the barrel, thanks to our patented process
This is the question every demanding cooper asks: does the Vinotte® sample really restore what the wine has taken from the barrel? The answer is yes, thanks to our patented innovation.
Reconditioning is done under an inert atmosphere, with an oxygen level maintained below 5 ppm. Additionally, there is micronic filtration and precise control of temperature and pressure during the operation. The nose, color, and structure in the mouth thus remain faithful to those of the original bottle, and for several months. The contributions of the wood, the notes of the toast, and the texture perceived in the mouth are preserved identically.
Vinovae is the sole holder of this patented process, which means you offer your clients a level of tasting reliability they will find nowhere else.
Simplified, reliable, and responsible tastings
Your demonstrations gain reach: more profiles presented to your clients, without mobilizing your casks or increasing travel.
Ecology
Greenhouse gas emissions reduced by -98% compared to a glass bottle
Vinottes
+5 million Vinottes® produced and shipped
Clients
Over 1,000 professional clients supported worldwide
Conservation
Preservation of organoleptic qualities guaranteed for several months
Vinovae accompanies you from start to finish
Vinovae supports you from initial advice to shipping, in UK and abroad. You can personalize labels and boxes with your workshop’s colors for commercial supports that carry your brand.
Production is French, carried out in partnership with a sheltered workshop that employs people with disabilities and in keeping with our environmental values (recyclable Vinottes®, glass-bottle recycling, local suppliers…).
For you, it’s a turnkey project. For your clients and prospects, a simplified and convincing tasting.
How a project happens, step by step
1 | We discuss your needs
You describe your profiles, toasts, and commercial objectives. We guide you toward the right formats to have them tasted by your clients and prospects in time.
2 | We recondition your selection
You provide the wines aged in your different barrels. We recondition them using our patented process that preserves all their qualities.
3 | We personalize and produce
We print labels and boxes to your image, and we imagine innovative and connected solutions (QR codes…) to document each toast and highlight your expertise.
4 | We ship wherever you want
Directly to your clients and prospects for your remote tastings, or to you for your meetings and trade shows.
They are already valuing their expertise with the Vinotte®
Many have already placed their trust in Vinovae! Why not you?
« The Vinottes are very useful to us and really improve our meetings. Our prospects and clients, in France and abroad, appreciate the tastings, but also the object itself. We are already thinking about the next campaign! »
Tonnellerie Bel Air
Frequently asked questions by coopers
Very little. That is the whole point of the format: a few liters are enough to produce a large number of identical samples. You demonstrate the difference between several toasts on the same wine without mobilizing or sacrificing an entire barrel for each profile.
Yes. Our patented process, under an inert atmosphere and low oxygen level, faithfully preserves the wood's contributions and toast notes. The aromas your client tastes in the Vinotte® correspond to what the wine has actually taken from your barrels.
Of course! We offer you a free test kit to judge the fidelity yourself before launching production.
A comparative trial in Vinotte® costs a fraction of a tasting mobilizing several casks or involving travel. Many professionals integrate it into their sales approach as a sales support tool, making the difference between your toasts immediately perceptible and shortening the decision cycle. We provide an estimate according to your volumes.
Yes, in Europe and internationally. We work with UPS and Hillebrand Gori (VignoblExport). For your remote demonstrations, we can ship samples directly to your clients. Our personalizable boxes can be shipped in letter format for even more simplicity!
Yes! Labels and boxes can be personalized with your workshop's colors. We can even go further by integrating technical sheets per toast or QR codes into your boxes to document each profile precisely.
From initial advice on formats to delivery, including reconditioning and personalization, you keep an expert contact throughout the project.
Vinovae has a production site in the United States and already supports clients in this market. Delivery terms and the regulatory framework are validated together according to your project.
They already trust us…
Test the Vinotte® for your demonstrations
Request your test kit and discuss with our experts about your toasts and how the Vinotte® can enhance your expertise!