[ NOMBLOT ]

Marc Nomblot could be considered a “wine concrete tanks designer” in creating very original concrete tanks’ shapes, as the egg-shaped one, which are based on the dolium wine urn of the Romans.

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○	Cubic Square Fermentation and Maturation Upright Tanks [33/41/58 HL]
○	Pyramid Fermentation and Maturation Upright Tanks [20/40/60 HL]
○	Vertical Oval “Egg” Tanks [600 L/16 HL]
○	Low Conicity Round and Oval Conical Tanks [32/40/50/70/80 HL]
○	High Conicity Round and Oval Conical Tanks [40/60 HL]

Since 1922 Marc Nomblot’s family has worked in the concrete business in the heart of Burgundy, France. His grandfather worked as a mason and his father as a concrete vault maker whose product was often adapted for making wine. The third generation representative, Marc Nomblot, started crafting specialized concrete wine tanks in the eighties. He remains the only specialized concrete wine tank producer in France and is by far the leading expert in the global market. He now sells his tanks all across France, as well as in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United States.

After over 80 years specialization in wine tanks, Nomblot’s now dazzling array of fermentation, aging and storage tanks include all sizes (from 270 L to 250 HL) of traditional Burgundian square formats as well as round, oval, conical, and even vertical or horizontal elliptical or egg shapes as developed for Michel Chapoutier and Domaine de la Romanee-Conti. The company also provides custom-designed products.

These specialized concrete tanks offer excellent thermal inertia, as well as controlled micro-oxidation, and are of course flavor neutral and durable. In effect, they offer a combination of some of the best qualities of stainless steel and wooden tanks. Wines fermented in concrete display more weight, fruit intensity and minerality than the same wines aged in stainless steel or plastic.

Over the past 20 years, Marc Nomblot has earned an excellent reputation, selling over 15,000 concrete tanks to the most prestigious wineries throughout the world including, in California: Araujo Estate Wines, Caymus Vineyards, Cayuse Vineyards, JC Cellars, Pax Wine Cellars, Rudd Vineyard & Winery, Tim Mondavi’s Continuum, Screaming Eagle, Sine Qua Non, Viader Vineyards, and Vineyard 29; and in France at Domaine de M. Chapoutier, Domaine du Comte Armand, Domaines des Comtes Lafon, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, and Château Pontet Canet in France.

For more information, please refer to Nomblot’s website: www.cuves-a-vin.com as well as recent articles in April 2008 Wine Business Monthly and Wines and Vines.