Barrels

Château Ferré

Capacity: 225 Liters
Stave Length: 95 cm
Bilge Diameter: 69.5
Head Diameter: 56.5
Stave Thickness: 20/22 mm
Galvanized Hoops: 8
Chestnut Hoops: No
Bung Hole: 50/51 mm
Pine Bar: Yes
Weight: 46 kg

Château Tradition

Capacity: 225 Liters
Stave Length: 95 cm
Bilge Diameter: 69.5
Head Diameter: 56.5
Stave Thickness: 20/22 mm
Galvanized Hoops: 6
Chestnut Hoops: 4
Bung Hole: 50/51 mm
Pine Bar: Yes
Weight: 46 kg

Bordeaux Export

Capacity: 225 Liters
Stave Length: 95 cm
Bilge Diameter: 68.5
Head Diameter: 56.5
Stave Thickness: 25/27 mm
Galvanized Hoops: 6
Chestnut Hoops: No
Bung Hole: 50/51 mm
Pine Bar: No
Weight: 47 kg

Also available as Thin Stave (20/22 mm Stave Thickness)

Burgundy Export

Capacity: 228 Liters
Stave Length: 88 cm
Bilge Diameter: 72.2
Head Diameter: 60
Stave Thickness: 25/27 mm
Galvanized Hoops: 6
Chestnut Hoops: No
Bung Hole: 50/51 mm
Pine Bar: No
Weight: 48 kg

Burgundy Tradition

Capacity: 228 Liters
Stave Length: 88 cm
Bilge Diameter: 72.2
Head Diameter: 60
Stave Thickness: 25/27 mm
Galvanized Hoops: 6
Chestnut Hoops: 8
Bung Hole: 50/51 mm
Pine Bar: Yes
Weight: 48 kg

Puncheons

Puncheons are available in 300L, 400L, 500L & 600L sizes and are made to order in France.

Tonnellerie Radoux Inc. uses the tightest-grain oak selected from different forests throughout France, Eastern Europe & United States. Each barrel is produced to meet a wine’s and winemaker’s distinctive style, and personalized service is reinforced by strict quality control to ensure consistency.

Medium Grain

This is a fairly new option for Radoux’s French Oak customers and is the quickest oak extraction of the three French Oak options. This is a perfect fit for those customers barrel aging wines for 12 months or less and works particularly well with shorter aged wines like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

Mixed Grain

This selection is 50% Tight Grain and 50% Medium Grain. Available in White Wine Selection (WWS) or Red Wine Selection (RWS); Classic or Evolution toast styles.

Tight Grain

This is Radoux’s most popular French Oak Barrel. Due to the Tight Grain, the oak extraction is much slower than the Medium Grain Barrels and is recommended for any wine aging in barrels for 12-24 months.

Extra Tight Grain "Blend"

Only the Highest Quality, Tightest-Grain Oak is selected and produced into Radoux’s Extra Tight, “Reserve BLEND” barrels. Due to the grain tightness, oak extraction is very slow and it is recommended for wine (particularly red Bordeaux and other longer aged varietals) aging in barrels for 18-24 months.

Small French Oak Barrels

Small French Oak Barrels are available in 28L, 55L & 110L sizes and are perfect for home winemakers. Available in Medium or Medium Plus toast levels.

A jewel of world barrel making.

It is its search for perfection that led Radoux to create the Super Fine Blend barrel. It has long been the solution to the toughest oenological demands thanks to a severe selection and production process.

Only perfect staves coming from the finest French oak with extremely tight grain (less than 1.5mm) are used to make this barrel. At each stage of the process, the barrels are closely examined and immediately rejected if any fault is detected in order to achieve impeccable quality.

Wood which meets these demanding criteria is rare and a specific purchasing policy is applied in the finest forests: the Super Fine Blend barrel is therefore produced in strictly limited quantities depending on the availability of the raw material. This is what makes it the most sought after barrel, a worldwide choice among the most prestigious wineries.

The Super Fine Blend barrel has a high aromatic potential, with a very slow extraction, and represents a real quality investment for the Cellar Master. It is recommended for wines which are to be aged over long periods and can reveal its potential over several vinification cycles.

The extreme tightness of its grain gives the wine maximum aromatic complexity, progressively released during aging, for a delicate contribution of structure, with fine and supple tannins. It is the perfect symbol of harmony between the wood and the wine, and is and will remain the most beautiful vessel to bring the best wines the world over to full maturity.

Sold all over the globe, the Super Fine Blend and Extra Fine X-Blend barrels are the perfect luxury containers for the greatest wines in the world.

Radoux takes its desire for perfection to an even higher level by employing all its Meilleurs Ouvriers de France to create the Extra Fine X-Blend, an ultra premium barrel meant for the best wines of the world.

The Extra Fine X-Blend barrel is Tonnellerie Radoux’s great pride, and is the symbol of the perfect harmony between wine and wood. It is the ultimately rare product, which generously releases its richness, complexity and finesse over long periods of aging.

Extra Fine X-Blend is a Work of Art, a combination of patience, savoir faire and absolute precision. Its ambition is to take the most noble of the world’s wines to their highest level.

Extreme tightness of grain

With millimeter precision, each stave is individually inspected with utmost care before being selected. The extreme tightness of the grain guarantees a great aromatic complexity. There is no room for compromise here, and only one to two hundred numbered barrels come out of the Radoux workshop.

Radoux’s new Omega barrel is the result of years researching wood, toast and its interaction with wine. It combines all the skills of Radoux’s research and production teams with the support of wine experts, renowned consultants, technical directors and international winemakers.

Great care in the selection of raw material and natural maturation for over three years.

The wood comes from a subtle blend of oak from the most prestigious French forests. The rough staves dry naturally in the open air for three years and only tight grain staves are selected.

Omega benefits from Radoux’s technological innovation OakScan®, which enables the staves to be instantaneously selected according to their polyphenolic index. This process enables us to finetune the selection of wood and favour the choice of moderate polyphenolic indices so as to obtain a perfect balance of the potential of the wood (a tannin and lactone content that is neither too high nor too low). Thanks to the combination of OakScan® and wood maturation of over three years, Radoux is able to guarantee a homogeneous level of ellagitannins and wood that is perfectly suited to the oenological objectives.

Pure : a specially adapted toast

Radoux has developed a specific toast for the Omega barrel to promote the bond and integration of wood and grape tannins. Thanks to a thermal action on tannins in matured and seasoned wood, a gentle and long heating process preserves the sweetness of the wood while allowing the wine to acquire volume and texture. In this way, the quality of the raw material is fully respected and the wine is enhanced.

Respect of the fruit and character

Tasting reveals that the Omega barrel gives emphasis to the fruit, with a balance between roundness, volume, tension and length on the palate. The tannins are soft, expressing freshness, elegance and finesse. The complexity of the aromas highlights the expression of the fruit, while respecting its origin.