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THE NE W COOPER AGE
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THE CUBE
Flexcube’s wine experts and designers have dedicated the last 12 months to develop our latest and most advanced Cube offering many design improvements.
The Cube exactly mimics the oxygen permeability of traditional oak barrels during the wine maturation process. Unlike oak barrels, the Cube maintains constant oxygen permeability over its life providing an almost unlimited lifespan of reliable performance.
The walls and shape of the Cube have been especially designed to allow full drainage to the valve. It is easily cleaned by spray ball or traditional methods.
The Cube is available in 1,000 L, 1,500 L and 2,000 L capacity and it can be stacked up to 4,000 L. The Cube is integrated into the frame to provide robust stability.
The Cube offers the convenience of writing on the outside wall with a chalk type pen. The walls are 100% food-grade and taint free.
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The Cube is fitted with a new patented designed lid, that contains a built-in seal that ensures a perfect airtight closure. The lid has a dome interior which guarantees no ullage when filled and topped. It is easily opened and closed by hand.
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BarriQ is genuine barrel oak developed by Flexcube in collaboration with our French foresters and cooperage experts, Oenowood International in Cognac. Designed specifically to replicate and match the oenological profile and kinetics of top barrels, BarriQ is 21mm thick, has perfectly straight and tight grain, it is 100% hand quarter split and has been naturally seasoned in our own yards.
The tubular vessels in BarriQ run parallel to the surface as in a barrel, conferring similar kinetic properties for superior wine impregnation and oxygen harmonisation.
We source our oak from the noblest origins: slow growth secular Haute Futaie French state forests, the finest medium elevation forests in the Russian Caucasus mountains and the most prized Appalachian and Midwestern white oak sources in America.
GENUINE BARREL OAK
Single forest origin Tronçais and Jupilles:Our latest and most exquisite addition to our range is the single forest origin 21mm thick BarriQ oak from the renowned forests of Tronçais and Jupilles. The highly prized oak of these forests, with very tight grain, is used by winemakers worldwide to produce icon wines.
Hand-split oak
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By combining different toasts in the appropriate proportions, we have created our exclusive BarriQ true barrel profiles that give the same aromatic complexity, structure and palate richness of top fire toasted barrels.
LBarriQFrom the same noble origins as BarriQ, LBarriQ (literally “little BarriQ”) is cut thinner to provide greater surface area for faster extraction. It conveys elegant aromatics and flavours, softening and structured tannins.
ExclusiveBarriQBarrelProfiles:
French Classic Barrel Profile: True top end French barrel profile available with toasted or untoasted heads.
Russian Classic Barrel Profile: True top end Russian barrel profile available with untoasted heads.
Lafayette Barrel Profile: Perfect blend of French and American barrel oak available with toasted or untoasted heads.
ExclusiveLBarriQvarietalprofiles:
Burgundy Profile: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Bordeaux Profile: Cabernet and Merlot.
Northern Rhone Profile: Shiraz.
Southern Rhone Profile: Shiraz, Grenache, Mourvedre, Cinsault and Italian varietals.
Hand-split oak
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WineMaturationCylinders
Flexcube’s Rocket (1000L), Soldier (600L) and Barrel (300L) are the best cost effective solution for the maturation of wine.
Providing the same maturation capabilities as the Cube, these maturation vessels allow winemakers to produce top quality wines ”without the frills”.
Now fitted with Flexcube’s specially designed new lids to ensure airtight closure. This lid contains a built-in seal and is easily opened and closed by hand.
Smallbatchandtrials
Flexcube has now created mini sized 100L Bottles designed for ultra small lot wine maturation and trials. These Bottles perfectly recreate the oxygen permeability of the larger maturation vessels. Ideal for the small lot winemaker, those awkward small volume “left over” batches and oak trials.
“Every winemaker should have a dozen of these...”
Oak trials: The 100L Bottles allow you to have more treatments. By introducing the oxygen element, winemakers can see what the real impact of a test oak will be.
MATURATION CYLINDERS
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OpenFermenter
Our food-grade polymer open fermenter is completely taint free and simple to clean. Light and nestable, it is easy to move and permits significant space savings out of season.
Availableversions
• 3.5 KL, nestable• 3.5 KL with removable rigid domed lid and CO2 port, nestable
Flexcube’s innovative system accessories make the traditionally labour-intensive management as efficient and controllable as far more costly systems.
Accessories
• Forklift mounted ferment cap plunger • 9-Coil drop-in cooling coil• Forklift mounted marc scoop net and frame
StorageTanks
Flexcube’s storage tanks have a minute level of oxygen permeability providing inert storage for all varietals. Wines stored in oxygen permeable tanks rarely need copper fining.
The reductive (i.e. anaerobic) conditions in stainless steel tanks encourage the formation of reduced characters in wine, such as those caused by bisulphides and thiols, and these often do not respond well to cooper fining or racking. Flexcube oxygen permeable storage tanks are not reductive and behave much more like the large oak storage vats used in Europe for low phenolic white wines.
The tanks can be fitted with internal floating ullage-control Skins which allow safe, simple and hygienic variable capacity operations.
STORAGE & OPEN FERMENTER
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Range
Selection:Most commonly used blend of different toast extracts.
OenotanV:Noticeable vanilla character and aromas.
OenotanM:Noticeable mocha character and aromas.
OENOTAN SELECTION
Oenotan Selection is the only water soluble oak extract available for wine and spirits production. This 100% organic, preservative free product enhances red, white and sweet wine, as well as fortified wines and dark spirits, by neutralising green characters, dry tannins from older cooperage and post fermentation earthy aromas.
Oenotan is made of seasoned French oak that has been air dried, chipped, toasted, water extracted and freeze dried. It is added to red or white wines during vinification, after pressing and/or at the beginning of maturation or bottling. Oenotan works especially well with wine styles that will normally see oak ageing or would like to see oak ageing.
Produced by the third largest Cognac distillery, Domain Boinaud, much effort has gone into perfecting the most gentle extraction, concentration and freeze drying process which preserves the aromatic and flavour characters of the oak. This does not extract the harsh tannins and phenols commonly associated with industrial tannin production, and results in an exceptionally high quality oak extract.
A pure natural product made using water and oak... nothing
else... just water and oak.
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ABOUT US
Recognising that existing commercial staves simply did not provide the quality of top end barrels, Flexcube partnered in 2010 with French foresters and coopers Oenowood International in Cognac to create two ranges of genuine barrel quality oak: BarriQ and LBarriQ.
Sourced from the finest cooperage forests in France, Russia and America, our oak has been designed to match the flavour, tannin, aromatic and, through our exclusive range of barrel profiles, the properties and complexities of the finest barrels. Now, wines at elite level are routinely being made using the Cube and BarriQ/LBarriQ oak.
During the last 12 months, our wine experts and designers have developed the latest and most advanced Cube offering many design improvements.
In 2001, engineer and vineyard owner Tony Flecknoe-Brown devised, developed and later patented the application of oxygen permeable polymers for use in the winemaking industry to construct specially-designed, oxygen permeable maturation vessels. Moving from initial trials to rapid commercial adoption, Flexcube was born with the mission to replicate and improve on traditional expensive oak barrels. Since then, Flexcube has gained wide acceptance from winemakers, even in traditional markets.
Flexcube’s maturation vessels, the Cube and Cylinders, exactly mimic the oxygen permeability of traditional oak barrels BUT, unlike oak barrels, oxygen permeability levels remain constant over time, providing an almost unlimited lifespan of reliable performance. When coupled with oak staves, Flexcube’s system replicates the barrel environment for maturation, with advantages in cost, quality, consistency, hygiene and versatility.
Flexcube is opening new roads to winemakers and changing the rules of the game.
Flexcube is the new cooperage.
A U S T R A L I A
Head Office & Warehouse:1/26 Grosvenor St, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, 3067Tel +61 3 9428 5842, Fax +61 3 9428 5862
Managing Director & Sales Manager - WA:Peter SteerMob +61 421 322 [email protected]
Australian Sales Manager:David GreenwoodMob +61 408 107 [email protected]
Sales Manager - NSW:Geoff ShenfieldMob +61 438 002 [email protected]
I S R A E L
Yotam Sharon Trio Atk LtdTel +972 3 740 7423Mob +972 54 440 [email protected]
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European & Mediterranean Sales & Marketing Director:Alban PetiteauxOenowood InternationalTel +33 5 1722 4002Mob +33 6 2286 2652 [email protected]
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Sales Bordeaux, Languedoc ,Roussillon, Rhône Valley, Provence, Corsica and South West:Caroline de BeaulieuOenovia S.A.R.L.Tel +33 6 1988 6871 [email protected]
Sales Bordeaux & rest of FranceAlban PetiteauxOenowood InternationalTel +33 6 2286 [email protected]
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Don BuchananP.T Rational ChoiceTel +62 812 389 [email protected]
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Sales:Peter SteerMob +1 707 254 [email protected]
Technical ManagerWayne DonaldsonFlexcube Inc.Mob +1 707 738 4001 [email protected]
S O U T H A F R I C A
Technical Sales Manager:Bertus FourieFlexcube South AfricaTel +27 21 808 5480 Mob +27 82 565 [email protected]
C H I L E
Matias LasserreTec4FoodTel +56 9 8230 5705 [email protected]
ResearchandDevelopment,Patents&IntellectualProperty
Flexcube invests heavily in research and development and Intellectual Property. With an in-house research winemaker, it conducts its own extensive research and also collaborates with universities throughout the world. Its personnel include renowned winemakers / oenologists and experts in oak foresting.
Patents consist of a set of exclusive legal rights granted to an inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention. These exclusive rights allow the right to prevent others from unfairly making, using, selling, or distributing the patented invention without permission. It is the core of the Western invention process and protects both inventors and customers alike.
Flexcube is diligent in protecting its intellectual property to prevent fraud, unauthorised theft and misappropriation of its rights.
© 2013 Flexcube
THE NEW COOPERAGE
www.flexcubegroup.com