Radoux USA is pleased to announce that April Moulton has joined the company as Regional Sales Manager, further strengthening Radoux USA’s presence across key U.S. wine regions.
April brings more than 10 years of experience in the cooperage industry and a strong customer‑focused approach to her new role. She will be supporting National Sales Manager Craig Holme in Napa Valley, while taking the lead for the Central Coast and Oregon, working closely with the Radoux USA team to ensure consistent, high‑quality service for customers.
“April brings professionalism, energy, and a deep understanding of our industry,” said Craig Holme, National Sales Manager, Radoux USA. “She is a valuable addition to our team and a strong partner for our clients.”
April’s appointment reflects Radoux USA’s continued investment in long‑term relationships and dedicated regional support.
The Radoux group, based in the Cognac region of France, is a leading manufacturer of French, American, and Hungarian oak barrels, puncheons, oak tanks, and casks. Additionally, our portfolio includes Pronektar: American and French oak granulates, chips, blocks, barrel inserts, and tank staves—available in a range of toasts and tannin content for both wine and spirit brands.
It’s no secret that oak enriches aromatics, textures, flavors, and ageability in wine and spirits. To ensure we provide the highest quality oak, Radoux has strict protocols for optimum oak sourcing, natural aging, sorting by grain, toasting regimes, and finishing. Our most exciting and new innovative scanning technology—Oakscan—allows us to measure the amount of polyphenols in wood instantaneously. After years of trial and error, we have also released our Omega & Nexus barrels—crafted with proprietary seasonings designed to enhance roundness and volume while providing balance and tension through precision-focused tannins that are expressive, elegant, and finesse-driven.
The same strict protocols and Oakscan technology are also applied to our oak adjunct brand, Pronektar—a line of oak granulates, chips, blocks, barrel inserts, and tank staves, highly suited to elevating textural, color, and flavor components for spirit brands. Given our spiritual home in Cognac, spirits have always been a vital part of our identity.
Trees harvested from forests in the Centre and Northeast France, provide us with extremely tight-grain oak. The same choice of grain applies to Eastern European oak selections. Radoux’s American Oak barrels are sourced from the highest quality white oak from Missouri, Minnesota, and the Appalachian regions.
Radoux USA is proud to announce the addition of wine industry veteran Mark Evich to our sales team as Business Development Manager. Mark brings extensive experience to the role, having started his career in wine production in Sonoma County and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. For more than a decade, he has specialized in barrels and oak products, helping winemakers elevate their craft.
“I’m thrilled to join Radoux USA and look forward to partnering with winemakers to deliver exceptional oak solutions that enhance the art of winemaking,” said Mark Evich.
The Radoux group, based in the Cognac region of France, is a leading manufacturer of French, American, and Hungarian oak barrels, puncheons, oak tanks, and casks. Additionally, our portfolio includes Pronektar: American and French oak granulates, chips, blocks, barrel inserts, and tank staves—available in a range of toasts and tannin content for both wine and spirit brands.
It’s no secret that oak enriches aromatics, textures, flavors, and ageability in wine and spirits. To ensure we provide the highest quality oak, Radoux has strict protocols for optimum oak sourcing, natural aging, sorting by grain, toasting regimes, and finishing. Our most exciting and new innovative scanning technology—Oakscan—allows us to measure the amount of polyphenols in wood instantaneously. After years of trial and error, we have also released our Omega & Nexus barrels—crafted with proprietary seasonings designed to enhance roundness and volume while providing balance and tension through precision-focused tannins that are expressive, elegant, and finesse-driven.
The same strict protocols and Oakscan technology are also applied to our oak adjunct brand, Pronektar—a line of oak granulates, chips, blocks, barrel inserts, and tank staves, highly suited to elevating textural, color, and flavor components for spirit brands. Given our spiritual home in Cognac, spirits have always been a vital part of our identity.
Trees harvested from forests in the Centre and Northeast France, provide us with extremely tight-grain oak. The same choice of grain applies to Eastern European oak selections. Radoux’s American Oak barrels are sourced from the highest quality white oak from Missouri, Minnesota, and the Appalachian regions.
A pioneer in innovation applied to wood for winemaking, Pronektar is expanding its range with the launch of PureVan, a new type of wood chip specially designed to offer a vanilla aroma of unprecedented intensity and purity.
Designed as the first in a future series of “ingredient” chips, PureVan meets the expectations of winemakers looking for rich profiles, marked by sweetness and without excessive tannic structure.
A strategic need...
The PureVan project was born out of an initiative launched in 2017-2018, following an in-depth audit of the existing range and market benchmarking. This analysis highlighted the versatility of the offering, while revealing a significant opportunity for development around chips with more targeted and intensely characterized profiles, meeting specific oenological objectives.
A research and development program was therefore launched with two essential conditions: richness and precision.
Laboratory tests quickly showed that two parameters were fundamental to obtaining such profiles:
- A significantly longer toasting time to fully develop the aromas,
- Extremely precise temperature control to guarantee a clear sensory profile.
…at the origin of an innovation in the production line
As existing industrial equipment did not meet these criteria, Pronektar's R&D department began developing a custom toasting tool in collaboration with airflow experts and a specialist manufacturer. This work resulted in the development of a unique and revolutionary oven, designed specifically to meet the requirements of this new generation of technical chips.
Measurable and significant results
Made from an exclusive selection of French oak and toasted using this innovative process, PureVan reveals dominant notes of vanilla pod, Tahitian vanilla, and vanilla sugar, accentuating sweetness and volume on the palate, but without significantly adding to the structure.
Analyses carried out as part of the development project confirm this powerful and pure aromatic profile:
- Chemical analysis of the wood reveals levels of vanillin and specific aromatic compounds well above the market average. Other aromatic families are in the minority and within the benchmarking average.
- On tasting, the wine has a generously vanilla nose, a full and indulgent palate, and a marked length, without imbalance.
A targeted tool for clear oenological objectives
PureVan can be used in both fermentation and aging, on white, rosé, or red wines. A minimum contact time of one month is recommended, to be adjusted according to tastings.
It is particularly suitable for winemakers seeking a repeatable and identifiable aromatic signature, in line with the expectations of certain international markets, particularly Anglo-Saxon markets, which appreciate wines with an accessible, smooth, vanilla-flavored, and flattering style.
Tonnellerie Radoux is excited to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at the Eastern Winery Expo! Visit us at Booth 233 to explore our premium Radoux barrels and Pronektar oak alternatives—crafted to enhance winemaking with precision and quality.
🍷 Radoux Barrels – Sourced from the finest French, Hungarian, and American oak, our barrels are meticulously crafted to ensure consistency and bring out the best in every varietal.
🍷 Pronektar Oak Adjuncts – From chips to staves, our oak alternatives offer winemakers versatility while maintaining the same high-quality standards as our barrels.
Join us at EWE to discuss how Radoux can help refine your winemaking process. See you in Booth 233!
Thank you to The Press Democrat for featuring our National Sales Manager, Craig Holme.
Read the article here: www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/profiles-in-wine-craig-holme-national-sales-manager-tonnellerie-radoux/
Santa Rosa, CA (August 18, 2021) Tonnellerie Radoux USA, Inc. National Sales Manager Craig Holme is pleased to announce Ryu Yamamoto as the newest member of the sales team. Yamamoto will represent Radoux and its oak adjunct brand Pronektar in the territory that includes Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake, Marin & San Francisco.
Ryu is originally from New Zealand and following a career in winemaking and consulting across the globe including over 20 harvests in France, Spain, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand has made California home.
Since arriving in the US in 2013, Ryu has been serving the wine, spirits and home brewing industries on the ingredient supply front so is already a familiar face to many and is looking forward to engaging in what he loves, hitting the road and collaborating with people to help make the products they strive for.
"I am really keen to understand what our customers’ aspirations are. Anyone can drop off a catalog and a business card but with the vast array of oak, toast and format options we have access to, I am confident that practical experience backed by Radoux's technical expertise can provide a truly valuable service and product to producers."
About Tonnellerie Radoux USA, Inc.: Located in Sonoma County, CA since 1994, Radoux USA supplies winemakers, brewers, and distillers across the country with French, American and Eastern European oak barrels (including 36-month options), puncheons, casks, tanks, and oak for oenology (Pronektar).
Radoux has strict protocols in place for optimum oak sourcing, natural aging, sorting by grain and polyphenolic indexes (Oakscan-proprietary technology), toasting regimes, and finishing which result in a portfolio of barrel, tank and oak adjunct options perfectly suited to the objectives of the winemaker.
For additional information, call 707-284-2888 or visit the web site at www.tonnellerieradoux.com.
(Santa Rosa, CA) Tonnellerie Radoux USA, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Craig Holme to the position of National Sales Manager. In this role, Craig will lead the USA and Mexico sales team members to achieve sales targets and manage the company’s marketing strategy.
With Radoux for more than four years, he has made significant contributions during this time to Radoux and its oak alternatives brand Pronektar throughout the Napa Valley, Central Coast, Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas regions.
Craig has more than 15 years of experience in the wine industry. He studied Wine Science in South Australia and Viticulture and Winery Technology at Napa Valley College and started his career in winemaking in California, South-Africa, Australia and France.
He began the transition into his new role on May 1, 2021 while also retaining his client portfolio and role as the Sales Manager for the Napa territory. Craig brings unwavering and specialized support to all his clients in the Napa region, and remains committed to enhancing and growing his relationships throughout the region.
We have no doubt he will continue to brilliantly represent Radoux USA, Inc and Pronektar.
About Tonnellerie Radoux USA, Inc.:
Established in 1994, Radoux USA supplies to the American wine and spirits industry:
- Premium American, French, and Hungarian Oak barrels under the brand Radoux
- Premium Oak alternatives under the brand Pronektar
- Tailor made tanks and casks under the brand Radoux Artisan Foudrier
Radoux coopers its Premium American oak barrels in California. Production was recently relocated to a TFF group site in Fresno under direction of our Radoux USA team to ensure the perfect continuity of our products. The barrels maintain the same standard of excellence. The oak sourcing, maturation and precision of our toasting styles remain 100% under Radoux management.
Premium French and Hungarian oak barrels are coopered in our historical and state-of-the-art workshop (Est. 1947) close to Bordeaux, France.
Pronektar oak alternatives are supplied to more than 500 wineries in the US. Their storage, distribution and assembly are carried out at the Radoux USA headquarters in Santa Rosa.
Pronektar, the brand of oak for enology from Radoux Cooperage, managed to mitigate “smoke taint” in 2020 wines using the nektar id trial kit
Some wines affected during the 2020 harvest by the massive fires on the West Coast, show the unpredictable and damaging “smoke taint” character. Winemakers need solutions to deal with this major issue.
Using oak alternatives is an option that can help ameliorate the “smoke taint”. However, how does one choose which oak products to use and the correct dosages for one’s wine?
Before the Nektar ID trial kit was developed, the only way to run trials was to soak oak samples in small volumes of wine. This method was long (several weeks to wait before tasting) and was lacking reliability (a small stick of oak cannot be representative of the large volume of staves necessary to treat a big tank of wine). If the experiment failed (oxidation of the samples, inappropriate dosage rate, etc.), everything had to be redone from the start.
The Nektar ID trial kit is instantly able to simulate the final organoleptic profile of a wine after aging with Pronektar oak products (chips, staves, blocks, etc.).
The kit contains a full set of liquid concentrates individually produced in large-scale volumes in order to make sure that they are fully representative of each product.
In a tasting, winemakers can immediately demonstrate the effect on their wine of every oak alternative of the Pronektar range by adding the concentrate in direct dilution.
The USA Pronektar Team recently completed some trials using Nektar ID on 2020 “smoke tainted” wines. They identified oak combinations able to mitigate “smoke taint”.
The USA Pronektar Team offers its Nektar ID trial service to winemakers with the target to help them minimize the appearance of “smoke taint” in their wines and to improve the final wine quality for the consumer.
Pronektar oak for enology was created by Radoux Cooperage in 1999 and supplies more than 500 wineries in the USA. Pronektar’s latest innovation, the Nektar ID trial kit, has already helped design hundreds of profiles of wines in more than 30 countries all over the world.
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Mother Nature may be unpredictable, but you can rely on Radoux USA.
Our Sonoma County cooperage has been providing high quality barrels and oak adjuncts to our customers near and far for over 25 years!
Radoux USA has inventory of French, American (Appalachian, Minnesota & Missouri oak) and Eastern European (Hungarian) oak barrels in stock at our Santa Rosa, CA warehouse.
With our cooperage production facility in Santa Rosa, CA we also have the capacity to produce barrels made-to-order and have stock on hand of staves of various oak origin and/or grain size.
- FRENCH
- Medium Grain
- Mixed Grain
(Medium & Tight Grain) - Tight Grain (24 & 36 month)
- Extra Tight Grain
- AMERICAN
- Appalachia
- Minnesota
- Missouri (24 & 36 month)
- EASTERN EUROPEAN (Hungarian)
- Various TOAST Levels & Styles
- Various CAPACITIES (225L, 228L, 300L, 500L, Smaller & Larger options available)
Please contact us for more details. Our sales representatives are happy to help you match the right barrel to your wine program.
We look forward to hearing from you.
TONNELLERIE RADOUX USA, Inc. . 480 Aviation Boulevard . Santa Rosa . CA 95403
Office (707) 284-2888 . Fax (707) 284-2894 . www.tonnellerieradoux.com