Santé Beverage Supply offers Creative Oak, makers of the industry’s finest oak alternatives. Our meticulous control over the entire oak alterative process includes wood sourcing, flavor chemistry, and precision toasting. Creative Oak products are available in convenient styles for both tanks and barrels and are produced in our own California facility. Each product features Center of France oak air-dried for a minimum of two years. With Creative Oak, you’re assured of achieving your desired flavor profile case after case, year after year.
All of our alternatives are available in both fire toasts and convection toasts. Fire toast adds the complexity of a barrel. Convection toasts is our own recipe that yields specific flavor profile of:
This versatile shape can be built into “log cabins” on a tank floor or used freestyle for tank ferments.
Twenty single tank staves tied at one end and attachable to the side of a tank for tank ferments and aging.
The smaller size of bagged squares speeds up flavor uptake and tannin integration, yet avoids “pencilly” and “brown paper bag” characteristics often associated with excessive exposure to end-grain.
Bagged halved staves combine the superior flavors of tank staves with the convenience of infusion bags.
Shorter lengths of bagged bricks allow faster absorption into wine while maintaining good tannin integration.
This versatile shape can be built into “log cabins” on a tank floor or used freestyle for tank ferments.
Twenty single tank staves tied at one end and attachable to the side of a tank for tank ferments and aging.