Overview
Employees
11-50 employees
Revenue
$5 to $10 million (USD) per year
Category
Experience Oak Alchemy
Innerstave is internationally recognized as the premier provider of new barrel oak alternatives. For more than forty years, the Innerstave team has helped winemakers around the world enhance the color, mouthfeel, structure, complexity, and aromatic support of their beverages through oak alternatives. Winemakers have used our products for decades to expand their oak spice rack flavor profiles, as well as reduce new barrel cooperage expenses by taking wood to the wine rather than wine to wood. In 1979, Innerstave initiated a paradigm shift in the wine industry by bringing premium new barrel oak flavor to wine through oak alternatives. Innerstave was created by one simple idea: build a system to replenish premium wine oak barrel flavors without needing to purchase new barrels every few years. The company is responsible for an entire industry of new barrel oak alternatives, also known as oak adjuncts, oak alternatives, oak add-ins™, oak integration systems and oak infusion products. Innerstave helps winemakers, brewers and distillers embrace more environmental and sustainable business practices by taking advantage of oak alternatives. Eco Friendly – Sustainable – Cost Effective. We source our oak alternatives from central France and the American Midwest. Our strong relationships with our American and French oak wood sources enable us to supply the highest quality products throughout our line from one year to the next. All our products are open air seasoned, toasted and produced at our facility located in Sonoma, California’s Carneros wine region. Innerstave is driven by the singular goal of assisting winemakers, brewers and distillers to achieve the new barrel oak flavor characteristics they seek by bringing oak to the beverage. Our convection oven toasting and premium oak sourcing allow us to create oak flavor profiles that are complex as well as consistent, year after year. Barrel Innerstave Installation Video http://youtu.be/0zg6h8CiD3w Innerstave helps wine makers stave off the cost of replacing used oak aging barrels. The company makes oak inserts (staves), which go into barrels and tanks to impart new oak flavor without the vintner actually having to purchase new barrels. Oak barrels cost $300 to $600 so it makes sense to get as much mileage as possible from them. Innerstaves' wooden slats fit inside the aging vessel and can be easily replaced when they have given up all their flavor, typically after three to five vintages. The company also sells loose slats, chips, custom staves, and specially configured staves. It was founded by fellow coopers (barrel makers) president Bob Rogers and Cole Cornelius, who began their collaboration in 1976.
