In response to numerous requests, Quality Wine Barrels Cooperage now offers barrels ready-to-use with fresh oak Innerstaves already installed. Rather than having to hassle with finding the right type of used barrels suitable to have inserts installed or using your own used barrels and then having to schedule for the cooper to open the barrel, perform the inspection and innerstave install or transport the barrels to a facility to have this done, then etc., etc.... whew! Especially during the run up to harvest or during harvest season, who has time for all that? 

Instead, Quality Wine Barrels provides the neutral red or white, FO, AO or HO barrels (purchased separately) that have been inspected to ensure their suitability for Innerstaves (or you can provide your own barrels).  Then we install the Innerstaves while also taking the opportunity to perform a thorough internal inspection on the barrels to ensure you receive sanitized barrels free of off odors or bacterial contamination that might make the barrels unsuitable for continued use for wine making. We finish by steaming to ensure each barrel is sanitized and leak free when received at the winery. 

No need to provide a barrel and pay for having innerstaves installed. Our barrels are provided with the innerstaves already installed into an inspected, sanitized barrel that is ready to use. 

To simulate the oak extraction of a new barrel, 18-sqft of new oak surface area is installed in a radial design attached by our cooperage team into a pre-inspected neutral barrel. Adding another element to augment the oak flavor profiles of your oak program, you will achieve oak extraction like that of a new barrel at fraction of the cost of new oak barrels.