Artisan Barrels & Tanks is very excited to include the newest addition to their portfolio, Biopythos. This small company out of Limoges, France crafts beautiful winemaking jars in both stoneware and porcelain. Limoges has a rich history of crafting high-quality porcelain, and Biopythos keeps this tradition alive with their line of winemaking vessels.
The stoneware and porcelain vessels come in various sizes and shapes, ranging from 3 L eggs to 550 L eggs, and 120 L jars to 500 L jars, please see below for tech sheets of their various offerings. The eggs will offer much more convection movement in the wine, and give an effect similar to battonage due to the stirring of lies. Stoneware is less porous than Terra Cotta, and offers a winemaking vessel with similar thermal kinetics to amphorae, but with less oxidation, creating tighter, more focused wines. The stoneware is completely inert, allowing the purity of the fruit to shine through on the finished wines.
Porcelain is even less porous than Stoneware, and helps shape wines with incredible precision and delicacy. This material is particularly suited for very delicate, fruit-forward whites, rosés, and reds. Porcelain is the least porous of our egg/amphorae offerings and allows for very slow oxidation and aging of the wine. This material mimics the tight preservation of fruit profile found with stainless tanks, but with a very slight porosity that helps the wine open and allows for movement within the wine as a result of the vessel’s shape.
Artisan Barrels & Tanks Inc
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Artisan Barrels is the exclusive US Representative for Tonnellerie Rousseau of Burgundy and Artisan Barrels Selection of France, Hungary & USA. We are also the exclusive US Representative of concrete tank manufacturer Nomblot of Burgundy and stainless-steel tanks manufacturer Lejeune of Bordeaux.
We specialize in providing North American wineries with premium oak barrels, tanks, casks, puncheons, small barrels hand-crafted in France, Hungary, and the US by Artisan coopers; and with boutique concrete and stainless-steel tank manufacturers in France. We strive to offer personalized service to winemakers through one-on-one barrel tasting, evaluation and consultation. All of our barrels are guaranteed for one year and our local coopers perform repairs and maintenance tasks in a timely manner. Our concrete tanks are guaranteed for 5 years (2 years on fittings), our stainless-steel tanks are guaranteed for 2 years and our French oak tanks & casks are guaranteed for 2 years.
Emphasizing service and a dedication to better wine ageing, Artisan Barrels strives to provide the highest quality oak, concrete and stainless-steel tanks, and fine oak barrels: all reflecting an “artisanal” philosophy and approach.
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North Coast Wine Industry Expo – WIN Expo – at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, CA on Thursday, December 1, 2022.
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