Every year, more than 300,000 valuable oak trees are felled around the globe to make round, non-dismantlable wooden barrels. Up to 90 percent of these oaks can be spared from being felled in the future by using our dismantlable, space- and resource-saving "MoreToastBarriQues“. Round barrels have been built for about 3000 years. Extrapolating over the next 3000 years, at least 1 trillion more oak trees would have to be felled to meet the very rapidly growing demand for barriques. So if you want to do something against the cutting down of our forests, become a "rebarriQue ambassador" and get involved with our sustainable barrels!

A single rebarriQue can replace up to 15 barrique barrels and thus make an important contribution to decarbonizing our planet. Once installed at the winemaker's site, rebarriQues can be opened in seconds and cleaned in an environmentally friendly manner - without the use of chemicals. Even reconditioning and retoasting can be done on-site. Unnecessary transportation is avoided. Only when its barrel walls are about as thick as a slice of toast does our dismantled wooden barrel go on its journey, giving up its last reserves of phenol and tannin to a good whisky. Processed into parquet in red wine or cognac colors, it is rebarriQue winemakers who make it all possible! 

rebarriQue wines do not have to shy away from comparison with wines that have been matured in round wooden barrels. On the contrary. In direct comparison and blind tastings "barrique vs. rebarriQue", rebarriQue wines always receive excellent ratings. The differences in quality become particularly clear in the second, third, and subsequent occupancies of the two types of wooden barrels. While round barrels close their wood pores after the first occupancy and release only a few ingredients to the wine, rebarriQue barrels release their ingredients in constant quantity and increasingly better quality over numerous occupancy cycles.

On May 11th, 2021 rebarriQue was awarded "for the construction of a square barrique barrel" by the Minister for Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in cooperation with the Working Group of the Chambers of Industrie and Commerce and the Working Group of the Chamber of Crafts Rhineland-Palatinate awarded a recognition in the category "Special Prize for Innovations from the Culture and Creative Industries". Matthias Glass, managing director of rebarriQue GmbH & CoKG, received the award virtually at an online award ceremony. Our thanks go to the minister, the represantives of the IHK and HWK and the jury of the Rhineland-Palatinate innovation award.