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Ecology
Let your clients taste the influence of your wood and toast profiles on their wines
What if your clients could compare the exact imprint of each toast profile on the very same wine, side by side and at their own pace? It is now possible with La Vinotte®!
All your craftsmanship lies in subtle nuances: a deeper toast, a specific oak species, tight or extra-tight grain, notes of vanilla, brioche, almond, or coffee… These differences are the heart of your trade, but they often remain difficult to demonstrate without an in-person tasting.
Vinovae fractionalizes the same wine aged in your different barrels into sample formats (50 ml and 100 ml) known as La Vinotte®. The patented process developed by Vinovae preserves the complete organoleptic profile of each wine for 6 to 12 months, depending on the format. As a result, your clients can taste the distinct nuances of two toast levels without needing to travel.
This is a new way to showcase your craftsmanship: through remote comparative tastings, with a degree of precision that only our patented fractionalization process can guarantee.
Meeting the commercial challenges of your cooperage
As a cooper, wood quality and toasting precision represent the true value of your craft. Whatever your objectives, we support you with tailored solutions to showcase your cooperage’s expertise.
- Do you want to demonstrate the real impact of your barrel toasts on a wine without requiring clients to travel for a tasting?
- Would you like clients to experience the influence of multiple casks on the same batch of wine, without the heavy expense and logistics of dedicating full barrels to trials?
- Does palate fatigue limit the number of barrel samples you can present during a single session?
- Would you like to organize blind tastings with numbered samples, ensuring your client’s sensory evaluation remains completely objective?
- Do you want to modernize your sales approach and stand out against competitors whose technical differences can be hard to perceive?
The Vinotte®, the solution designed to showcase your craftsmanship
Here is how the Vinotte®, Vinovae’s sample format, meets the constraints of cooperages:
- Comparative tastings anywhere: we ship samples directly to your clients, across the US.
- Samples remain organoleptically stable for several months, allowing tastings to be spaced out over multiple sessions at a relaxed pace, preventing palate fatigue and eliminating scheduling bottlenecks.
- Wines are fully protected from oxidation from the moment of rebottling, faithfully preserving the subtle expression of each toast profile.
- Easy-to-number samples make organizing blind trials seamless, ensuring unbiased sensory feedback.
- The exact tasting measure served for each trial, without tying up or opening entire barrels.
- A groundbreaking format that modernizes your sales approach and sets your cooperage apart from traditional workshops.
How to use La Vinotte® in your commercial strategy
Our sample format opens up concrete uses for coopers who wish to make a difference.
Present the same wine aged across different toast levels or oak species. Your client tastes the profiles side by side and immediately identifies the unique signature of each barrel.
Send a curated set of Vinottes® to a distant winemaker or cellar master and lead an interactive remote tasting with complete confidence.
Allow overseas prospects and clients to evaluate your barrel profiles without the heavy logistics of shipping whole casks. A lightweight format that travels easily and carries your expertise beyond your usual borders.
Offer a structured comparative tasting at your stand rather than relying solely on brochures. Visitors walk away with tangible, sensory proof of what sets your oak and craftsmanship apart.
A tasting perfectly identical to the barrel, thanks to our patented process
This is the question every demanding cooper asks: does a Vinotte® sample truly reflect what the wine extracted from the barrel? The answer is yes, thanks to our patented innovation.
Rebottling takes place under an inert atmosphere, with dissolved oxygen maintained below 5 ppm. This is complemented by micron filtration and strict temperature and pressure control throughout the operation. Aromas, color, and palate structure remain completely true to the original wine for several months. Oak extraction, toasty aromatics, and mouthfeel are preserved without alteration.
Vinovae holds the exclusive patent for this technology, ensuring your clients enjoy a level of sensory fidelity available nowhere else.
Simplified, reliable, and responsible tastings
Your trials achieve greater reach: present more oak profiles to winemakers without mobilizing full barrels or incurring heavy travel expenses.
Vinottes
+5 million Vinottes® produced and shipped
Clients
Over 1,000 professional clients supported worldwide
Conservation
Preservation of organoleptic qualities guaranteed for up to 12 months depending on the format
Vinovae accompanies you from start to finish
Vinovae supports you from initial technical consultation through to final delivery, in the US. You can fully customize labels and packaging with your cooperage’s colors and branding, creating sales collateral that carries your visual identity.
Production aligns with our strict environmental commitments (recyclable Vinottes®, glass recycling, local sourcing) and social standards.
For you, it is a turnkey solution. For your clients and prospects, it delivers an effortless, highly convincing tasting experience.
How a project unfolds, step by step
1 | We discuss your needs
You outline your wood profiles, toast levels, target volumes, and commercial goals. We guide you toward the right formats to have them tasted by your clients and prospects in time.
2 | We fractionalize your selection
You provide the wine aged in your various barrels, and we rebottle them using our patented technology to preserve their full profile.
3 | We customize and produce
We print custom-branded labels and boxes, integrating smart digital solutions (such as QR codes) to detail each toast profile and showcase your cooperage’s craftsmanship.
4 | We ship wherever you want
Directly to your clients for remote comparative sessions, or to your facility for on-site meetings and industry exhibitions.
They are already showcasing their expertise with La 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! »
Bel Air Cooperage
Frequently asked questions by coopers
Very little. That is the primary benefit of the format: just a few liters are enough to produce a substantial series of identical samples. You can demonstrate the differences between multiple toast profiles on the same wine without tapping or sacrificing an entire barrel for each reference.
Yes. Our patented process, operated under an inert atmosphere with minimal oxygen pickup, meticulously preserves wood compounds and toast aromas. The aromatic notes your client detects in the Vinotte® correspond exactly to what the wine absorbed from your barrels.
Of course! We provide a free trial kit so you can assess sensory fidelity firsthand before starting a production run.
A comparative trial using La Vinotte® costs a fraction of shipping full barrels or traveling for on-site visits. Many coopers integrate it as a key sales enablement tool, making toast nuances immediately perceptible and shortening client decision cycles. We provide custom quotes based on your project volumes.
Yes, nationwide across the US. We work with UPS and Hillebrand Gori. For remote demonstrations, we can dispatch samples directly to your clients. Our flat, customizable presentation boxes can even travel via standard mailbox-friendly parcel delivery for added ease!
Yes! Labels and presentation cases can be fully customized with your cooperage’s colors and logo. We can also insert dedicated technical tasting sheets for each toast or add QR codes to provide in-depth wood specs.
From initial format advice through to final delivery, including fractionalization and customization, you benefit from a dedicated expert point of contact throughout the project.
They already trust us…
Test La Vinotte® for your demonstrations
Request your test kit and connect with our specialists to explore your toast profiles and see how La Vinotte® can showcase your cooperage’s craftsmanship.