Tonnellerie Radoux is excited to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at the Eastern Winery Expo! Visit us at Booth 233 to explore our premium Radoux barrels and Pronektar oak alternatives—crafted to enhance winemaking with precision and quality. 🍷 Radoux Barrels – Sourced from the finest French, Hungarian, and American oak, our barrels are meticulously crafted to ensure consistency and bring out the best in every varietal. 🍷 Pronektar Oak Adjuncts – From chips to staves, our oak alternatives offer winemakers versatility while maintaining the same high-quality standards as our barrels.  Join us at EWE to discuss how Radoux can help refine your winemaking process. See you in Booth 233!

(Santa Rosa, CA) Tonnellerie Radoux USA, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Craig Holme to the position of National Sales Manager. In this role, Craig will lead the USA and Mexico sales team members to achieve sales targets and manage the company’s marketing strategy. With Radoux for more than four years, he has made significant contributions during this time to Radoux and its oak alternatives brand Pronektar throughout the Napa Valley, Central Coast, Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas regions. Craig has more than 15 years of experience in the wine industry. He studied Wine Science in South Australia and Viticulture and Winery Technology at Napa Valley College and started his career in winemaking in California, South-Africa, Australia and France. He began the transition into his new role on May 1, 2021 while also retaining his client portfolio and role as the Sales Manager for the Napa territory. Craig brings unwavering and specialized support to

Pronektar, the brand of oak for enology from Radoux Cooperage, managed to mitigate “smoke taint” in 2020 wines using the nektar id trial kit  Some wines affected during the 2020 harvest by the massive fires on the West Coast, show the unpredictable and damaging “smoke taint” character. Winemakers need solutions to deal with this major issue. Using oak alternatives is an option that can help ameliorate the “smoke taint”. However, how does one choose which oak products to use and the correct dosages for one’s wine? Before the Nektar ID trial kit was developed, the only way to run trials was to soak oak samples in small volumes of wine. This method was long (several weeks to wait before tasting) and was lacking reliability (a small stick of oak cannot be representative of the large volume of staves necessary  to treat a big tank of wine). If the experiment failed (oxidation of the samples, inappropriate dosage rate, etc.), eve