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Oak Alternatives

The Seguin Moreau innovative range of oak alternative products: Oenochips, Oenoblock, Oenostave and Oenostick, the perfect solution for your maturation needs.

The formats

Four formats, one purpose

Oak character where a new barrel isn't the right answer: in tank, in older wood, or wherever the wine needs shaping with more precision than volume.

Oenochips

The finest format in the range, used during or after malolactic fermentation, or during maturation.

Oenoblock

Larger pieces of oak for a slower, steadier contribution, in French or American oak at several toast levels.

Oenostave

Full-length oak in 7mm or 18mm, untoasted through to medium plus, ready to be rigged into a tank.

Oenostick

Barrel inserts cut from the same oak as Seguin Moreau barrels, used to bring older barrels back to life.

Oak blocks, chips, staves and sticks laid out together

Where they earn their place

Precision, not compromise

Alternatives are often treated as the budget option. Used properly they're something else entirely, a way to place oak exactly where a wine needs it, in vessels a barrel could never reach, and to keep older barrels working harder for longer.

  • In tank. Bring oak to volumes that would be impractical to barrel down.
  • In older wood. Restore contribution to barrels past their first fill.
  • By design. Part of the Seguin Moreau range, made by the same house as the barrels.

Not sure which format?

That's the conversation worth having

Format, dosage and timing all move together. Tell us the wine and the vessel it's sitting in, and we'll work back from there.