WineStix® Carboy Sticks:

WineStix® Carboy sticks are sized so that one stick is the dosage for 5-6 gallons of wine. Due to careful aging and seasoning of the wood, either French or American, and precise toasting delivers very specific flavors and aromas according to the 4 toast levels we use. Please allow 2-3 months minimum extraction time to balance the extractions of short and long grain. Removal of the wood early only allows certain extractions of flavors and primarily from the short grain in the WineStix® milling.

The end result is in likeness to a second use Barrel.

Species: French Oak
Packaging: 1 single WineStix stick (8'' x 15/16'')
Toast Levels: Dark (Heavy)

WHY US?

The image says it all. The good sense to use the best wood and the sense to know when to go with the grain towards innovation. The Wine Stix® milled shape is unique in that it gives the impact of oak flavors to the wine as in “short grain wood products”, allowing less pieces of wood, and at the same time giving a more complex extraction of “long grain wood”, like the wooden barrel does, together in the same piece of wood! Less Oak. Less Cost. Excellent Results.

WHY IT WORKS

Wine Stix® products are milled in a way that exposes short grain and long grain in the same piece of wood. The Wine Stix® shape is unique in that it gives the impact of oak flavors to the wine as in “short grain wood”, allowing less pieces of wood, and at the same time gives a more complex extraction of flavors due to the “long grain wood”; like the wooden barrel does. Because of the Wine Stix® milling there is gradience toasting in light, medium and medium plust levels! This complexity acquired with Wine Stix® products are the closest Oak Alternative being made to replicate the magic of a Wooden Barrel.

HOW IT WORKS

A Wooden barrel exposes only long grain to the Wine, Spirits or Beer. All barrel alternatives have degrees of short grain and some more than others. The shorter the grain or “end grain”, the faster the liquid can saturate the wood as in products like chips, beans, spirals and cubes. Also, the extraction of flavors from the wood is faster. Long grain is very slow to be saturated by the wine and more complexity occurs naturally and more slowly during the polymerization process.