Soluble Oak™ & Wine
Barrel Aging Has Shaped Wine for Centuries. It Is Also Shaped by the Barrel’s Limits.
Winemaking is a conservative craft, and for good reason—you get one crop a year, and every decision about oak aging is a bet you cannot easily undo. Oak can help define a wine, but achieving the intended profile takes time. Every barrel develops differently, and even your best barrels eventually contribute less oak character.
How Wineries Are Using Soluble Oak
Some wineries use Soluble Oak after fermentation to introduce authentic oak influence without using a barrel.
Others use it after a brief period of barrel aging to refine the final flavor profile, increase mouthfeel, and add complexity without extending the wine’s time in the barrel. Because Soluble Oak can be added incrementally, winemakers can taste as they go and stop when the wine reaches the intended profile. This provides greater precision and control while preserving the winemaker’s creative judgment.
What Time Costs
Months, sometimes years, can stand between fermentation and a market-ready bottle—time during which capital remains tied up in barrels instead of funding your next release. Variability in oak influence can also make it harder to reproduce the intended profile from one vintage to the next. When the wine is close but not quite where you want it, the decision is often whether to wait longer, blend around the problem, or accept the result. Soluble Oak gives winemakers another option.
Authentic Oak Influence, When You Want It
Soluble Oak™ is added after fermentation and final filtration, requiring no changes to your existing infrastructure. Its influence is immediate and continues to integrate over the following 24 to 48 hours. Made from real white oak, Soluble Oak allows winemakers to introduce or refine oak character with greater precision—enhancing aroma, flavor, body, and mouthfeel without relying entirely on the variability of a barrel.
Natural. Made from white oak, without artificial flavors or sweeteners.
Immediate. Evaluate the oak influence as soon as it is added, with fuller integration over the following 24 to 48 hours.
Precise. Add incrementally, taste as you go, and stop when the intended profile is reached. Soluble Oak™
Mouthfeel. Increase body, texture, and a smooth, rounded finish.
Consistent. Reproduce the intended oak profile more reliably from one batch or vintage to the next.
Faster to Market. Achieve the desired oak influence without committing the wine to a longer barrel-aging cycle. Scalable. Requires no changes to existing infrastructure and scales cleanly for larger production runs.
Soluble Oak™ is produced using proprietary, patent-pending extraction technology designed to use oak more efficiently and reduce dependence on traditional barrel aging.
Mission
Our work is the uncompromising pursuit of pristine white oak character. Our purpose is to help you produce even more outstanding wine with Sustainable Oak.
Townshend Cellar
“The products are as pure as we would get through a brand new barrel. There are no secondary flavors.”
Brendan Townsend