Wineglobe and Bouchard Cooperages are pleased to announce a collaboration for representation in the US and Mexico while continuing limited involvement with Jaimee Motley from Jaimie Motley Wines and Fassbinderei Stockinger.

The Bouchard Cooperages non-oak vessel portfolio includes vessels made from concrete, sandstone, terracotta, cocciopesto, stainless steel and now premium borosilicate glass adds Paolo Bouchard.

Wineglobe, produced in Bordeaux France by the Paetzold family are single-piece glass globes that range from 25L – 400L with the most popular sizes being 115L and 220L which allows for the purest expression regarding terroir-driven wines. The Wineglobe was created in 2015 and in 2020 received the famous Vinitech Innovation Trophy award. Today, it represents the ultimate reference high-end cutting-edge vessel found in the most prestigious of cellars for the fermentation and aging of white and rosé wines and the aging of reds.

Wineglobes have been shown to produce unique wines that are totally different from those fermented and aged in wood, concrete, or steel vats. The natural features of the fruit, vineyard, and terroir are exposed in a way that is completely distinctive, and unique and produces wines of purity and perfume.

Over 500 customers are using Wineglobes in some of the most famous cellars including:

• Burgundy: Michelot, Vincent Dancer, Benjamin Leroux, Bonneau de Martray, Clerget, Ballot Millot, Nicolas Rossignol, Lamy, Arnaud Ente, and Perrot Minot (pioneers of the early trials and significant user)
• Champagne: Savart, Calsac and Agrapart
• Bordeaux: Clos Manou, Château Corbin and Domaine de l’A
• Loire: Daganeau and Chidaine.
• Rhône: Combier, Maxime Graillot, David Reynaud, and Mathieu Barret
• Others: Domaine Vaccelli (Corsica), Gérard Bertrand (Provence), Domaine Ott (Provence)

Since the 18^th century, wine has been entrusted to glass bottles. Because of its neutrality, glass is known and recognized as a harmonious wine-aging vessel that enables the full expression of your grapes and site.

Borosilicate glass is used for making Wineglobes which is the purest, strongest, and most resistant type of glass allowing for the globes to be inert, smooth, impermeable, neutral, and unaltered over time.

A range of stainless steel, teflon, and concrete accessories, stands and fabric coverings for protecting the Wineglobes from light make the Wineglobes extremely winemaker-friendly and easy to use.

Wineglobes oenological points of interest include:

• Allow for terroir and varietal-based wines
• Wineglobes are oxygen-proof; however, their sphere shape allows for the wine to stay in constant motion, be dynamic and alive, and avoid being reduced.
• Wineglobes can be used as a blending component together with barrels to understand specific terroirs and parcels
• An extremely versatile vessel for white, red, rosé, sparkling base or skin contact wines and can be used for vinification and long-term aging

Advantages of glass as a material include: 

• Glass is an eternal, noble, and a long-lasting material
• Glass has a thermal conductivity close to that of concrete allowing for good temperature stability
• Transparency so that lees sedimentation, wine turbidity, and malolactic fermentation can be observed and better understood
• No release of elements into the wine
• Elimination of headspace
• Flawless hygiene
• No loss nor topping is needed, therefore, decrease in SO2 usage between 25% to 50%
• Easy and simple to clean hence requiring less water

Wineglobes have an infinite lifespan, are very easy to clean, and barring any accidents can be used forever. The excellent Wineglobe’s Website and Instagram page can be used for more information.

https://www.wineglobe.fr/en/

https://www.instagram.com/wine.globe/

To end 2023 and start 2024, Bouchard Cooperages looks forward to exhibiting a WineGlobe both at WINexpo in Santa Rosa on November 30th, 2023, and at the Unified Wine Symposium on January 24th and 25th, 2024.

For more information on Wineglobes, please get in touch with Bouchard Cooperages at 707 – 257-3582 or at sales@bouchardcooperages.com.