Oak & Oak Alternatives

Fine "shredded" oak chips. Untoasted. 

Suggested dosage for fermenation:

• whites and lighter styles of red: 1-3g/L
• reds for aging: 3-5g/L

Stave Fans offer convenient handling in and out of tanks, requiring minimal hardware for setup. Add to that, free-floating orientation minimizes the buildup of lees. And highly flexible: when in wine, the hanging fans stay above the floor for fermentation and lees-stirring programs.

Char #3 American oak spirals add super dark color, smoke, vanilla, and caramel flavors with nice tannin structure.

Usage: 1 Carboy Spiral per 3 gallons for 3-6 weeks

Oak Chips Assorted

 Dark and light available.

Assorted Oak chips

Light  and Dark available

Mesh bag for holding oak chips in barrels. 

18 Sticks- approximately 1" cube drilled

1 stick/carboy

Slow, fire-toasted Oak Cubes are an economic method of obtaining smilar qualities to barrel aging wines more economically.

After 2 months of contact time, these cubes will start permeating the wine with oak flavour, which is much smoother and more characteful when compared to extraction from oak chips.

Our American Oak cubes are Heavy Toasted 

Oak Chips Assorted

Bag of assorted oak chips

Light and dark available.

Stavin slow fire toasted cubes create the same traditional flavors as found in an oak barrel.

French Oak Chips

Chips are an economic method of incorporating toasted oak into fermentations.

Chips deliver intense tannins and oak quickly into the wine.

These French Oak chips are toasted to a Medium level so as to mellow the extractors.

Aproximate Flavour Contributions: French oak offers an aromatic sweetness and full mouthfeel contributions, a fruity, cinnamon/allspice character, along with custard/ crème brûlée, milk chocolate, and roasty notes at higher toast levels

Oak "Savour String Beans" - French

Whether in tank or barrel, when you have less time to oak your wine or just want to touch up your wine, use the StaVin Oak Bean. The Beans are cut from minimum three-year seasoned, Fire Toasted staves and offer a quicker extraction rate while delivering the same complex flavor compounds as oak staves

During fermentation Beans are a natural oak product for initiating the stabilization of color and for cross-linking tannins. Early use of Beans in red wine production helps build a wine’s structure, which will improve mouthfeel and tend to deepen the color of a red wine. 

Stavin offers two  products, using two additional toasting preparations; the Savour Oak String Bean and Barrel Head Long Bean, which can be used separately or in combination with the Fire Toasted Beans. Blending these products, with micro-oxygenation,­ will enable you to replicate any of your favorite barrels. 

Seasoning: 3 years in natural elements

Toast method: Convection oven toasted

Toast level: 

Useful life: 1 year