Wood Cooper Course
The Wood Cooperage Course equips you with essential cooperage skills to produce professional 225 L oak wine barrels. Covering oak selection, stave preparation and drying, precise barrel design, controlled toasting for flavor consistency, workshop safety protocols, and rigorous quality assurance, you'll create structurally sound barrels with reliable taste profiles every time.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides a practical guide to crafting durable 225-liter oak barrels. Participants will master log selection, stave drying, bending, hooping, toasting, and medium-toast flavor management. Learn to establish a safe small-batch workshop, explore oak varieties and wood properties, and implement strict testing, traceability, and records for superior, repeatable barrel quality.
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Develop skills
- Select barrel wood by evaluating oak species for strength, scent, and taste profiles.
- Prepare and bend staves through milling, jointing, steaming, and forming for leak-proof fits.
- Control medium toasting by adjusting heat patterns for uniform wine maturation flavors.
- Design 225 L barrels by dimensioning staves, hoops, and ends for exact volume specs.
- Conduct quality checks and leak tests to confirm capacity, watertightness, and barrel tracking.
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