BARREL REJUVENATION
COSTS & COMMERCIALS
COSTS & COMMERCIALS
Madeva offers a cost effective solution for barrel rejuvenation without compromising your final product or extending your production time.
REJUVENATION A COST SAVING STRATEGY
The cost of new barrels have been steadily rising over time. As a result of these high barrel costs, distillers worldwide are dealing with higher production expenses, fewer choices for aging their spirits, and challenges in their supply chain.
This has prompted distillers to reuse their current barrels or adopt alternative methods to recondition them. Madeva is an alternative to new and reconditioned barrels that is simpler, more cost effective, highly efficient in processing with no hidden costs.
THE COST OF BARRELS
The cost of barrels over the last 5 years has grown significantly, much of this lead by the price of French oak barrels however its equivalent American oak counterpart has also experienced significant price increase. This has pushed many distillers to extend the number of barrel fills as well as their use of mechanical rejuvenation (strip & char). These are key strategies but come at a price of reduced maturation effect.
Barrel Prices
Percentage result
Price per effective litre
American oak barrels cost $600, used over 3 fills are $200 per use
Each fill depletes the essential phenols, compounds, color and components in a barrel resulting in a ‘weaker’ end product, this often requires distillers and blenders to making use of older product or new aged spirit in an attempt to boost overall quality.
In order to better quantify the cost of ageing in varying barrel ages one must take into account the ‘overall effect’ of ageing in older barrels and then comparing to the underlying cost of these barrels.
MADEVA COSTS $ 20- 42 PER BARREL TREATMENT
before considering application variation and hidden costs of barrels and alternatives (see below)
BASIC MADEVA COST COMPARISON
In order to provide a simple co