Description
Tonnellerie Orion Barrels shape your wine’s identity. They are more than just ageing vessels. In fact, oak provides balance, complexity, and precision. We forge this excellence through a deep respect for time, terroir, and collaboration. Therefore, each barrel becomes an instrument. It elevates your wine during vinification and ageing.
Download the detailed Orion Barrel Selection Guide here.
Tonnellerie Orion Barrels: Crafted With a Purpose
The Tonnellerie Orion team custom-builds every barrel. Specifically, we account for varietal, vineyard, vintage, intended style, and cellar practices. Then, our team fine-tunes each variable. This includes wood origin, grain structure, seasoning time, and toasting profile. Crucially, we align these variables with your desired aromatic and textural impact.
Indeed, oak reflects its origin, just like wine does. It carries the imprint of its soil and climate. Consequently, the Tonnellerie Orion blends come from prestigious forests. Moreover, they offer a diverse range of organoleptic expressions. These expressions include finesse, fruit, sweetness, freshness, or tension. This controlled diversity allows us to craft balanced, expressive barrels. Ultimately, they remain respectful of your wines. Furthermore, Tonnellerie Orion blends stave wood from elite French forests. This brings you a rich range of tannic structures and flavour signatures. Signatures range from purity and freshness to mid-palate sweetness or tension. Therefore, this diversity enables precision in barrel expression. Above all, it always serves the fruit.
Tailored craftsmanship, built around your winemaking goals
We thoroughly inspect our Tonnellerie Orion Barrels. Inspection covers toast integrity and stave joinery. It also includes leak tests and final packaging. Hence, we integrated a final quality check into our production line. This ensures every unit meets our highest standards. As a result, this guarantees consistency, reliability, and peace of mind for every shipment. Expect impeccable quality, truly worthy of the Orion signature.
All Tonnellerie Orion barrels come in standard formats. These are Bordeaux Transport 225L and Burgundy 228L. Stave thicknesses are 22mm or 27mm. In addition, Orion offers a selection of large formats. Significantly, we craft these exclusively from 27mm staves. This ensures low permeability and a slow, controlled exchange. Formats include 300L, 400L, and 500L. All large formats are available in fine or extra-fine grain. Finally, they adapt to your wine profile. They are also compatible with all Tonnellerie Orion toasting options. These standard formats suit a wide range of ageing styles. Thus, they meet your technical requirements.
To learn more about these barrels, feel free to contact us. We partnered with them because we trust their quality.
