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Let your clients taste the influence of your wood and toast profiles on their wines
What if your clients could side by side compare the exact imprint of each toast profile on the very same wine, 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, fine or tight grain, notes of vanilla, toasted 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 rebottles the same wine aged in your different barrels into sample formats (2 cl, 4 cl, 5 cl, and 10 cl) known as La Vinotte®. The patented process developed by Vinovae preserves the complete organoleptic profile of each wine for 3 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 rebottling 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.
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Do you want to demonstrate the real impact of your barrel toasts on a wine without requiring clients to travel for a tasting?
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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?
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Does palate fatigue limit the number of barrel samples you can present during a single session?
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Would you like to organize blind tastings with numbered samples, ensuring your client’s sensory evaluation remains completely objective?
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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:
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Comparative tastings anywhere in the world: we ship samples directly to your clients, across France and internationally.
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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.
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Wines and spirits are fully protected from oxidation from the moment of rebottling, faithfully preserving the subtle expression of each toast profile.
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Easy-to-number samples make organizing blind trials seamless, ensuring unbiased feedback.
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The exact tasting measure served for each trial, without tying up or opening entire barrels.
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A groundbreaking format that modernizes your sales approach and sets your workshop apart from traditional cooperages.
How to use the Vinotte® in your commercial approach?
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 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 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.
Ecology
Greenhouse gas emissions divided by 50 compared with a glass bottle
Vinottes
5 million Vinottes® produced and shipped
Clients
Over 1,000 professional clients supported worldwide
Conservation
Organoleptic stability 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 based in France, in partnership with an ESAT (a social enterprise employing people with disabilities) to foster social inclusion through meaningful work.
For you, it’s a turnkey project. For your clients and prospects, it delivers an effortless, highly convincing tasting experience.
How a project works, 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 rebottle 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 personalize 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 cooperage for on-site meetings and industry exhibitions.
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
Directly to your clients for remote comparative sessions, or to your cooperage for on-site meetings and industry exhibitions.
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, in France and internationally. We work with UPS and Hillebrand Gori (VignoblExport). For remote demonstrations, we can dispatch samples directly to your clients. Our flat, customizable presentation boxes can even be sent via standard letter mail 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 rebottling and customization, you benefit from a dedicated expert point of contact throughout the project.
Vinovae operates a production facility in the United States and actively supports coopers in this market. Delivery terms and regulatory compliance are validated together based on your project setup.
They already trust us…
Test the 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.