"Friends of Barrels"
This is a special opportunity to put wine in your future. Purchase your own personal barrel at Potomac Point Winery. There are a limited number of wine barrels available each year.
Here's how it works:
- Cost is $900.00 plus tax
- Specially crafted barrels with the winery name & detailing
- Etched plaque with your name or personal dedication
- Barrels will be filled with the year's grape harvest in September
- Special Barrel Dedication Day at Winery
- Annual Spring Barrel Tasting from yours and other barrels each year for 4 years as the wine reaches maturity before bottling, starting in 2010
- You may choose Red or White wine
- Receive a case of wine (Red or White) from each vintage year after bottling, total of 4 cases. First case November 2010(2009 Vintage), remaining cases in 2011 Date TBD(2010 Vintage), Date in 2012 TBD(2011 Vintage), Date in 2013 TBD (2012 Vintage). Approximately $225.00 value per case; total of 4 cases. Check the event calendar for updates!
- You get to keep the barrel after the last bottling in September 2013
Our barrels are selected from some of the finest Cooperages.
Cooperages Used by Potomac Point
Tonnellerie Cadus is located in Ladoix-Serrigny, just north of Beaune. Cadus was created to meet the increasing demand around the world for Ultra-Premium barrels using Burgundian firing techniques. Cadus is managed by Francois "Paquito" Barbier, who oversees over 30 experienced coopers.
Tonnellerie Damy is a third generation cooperage in Meursault, which is managed by Jerome Damy. Jacques Damy, Jerome's father, is Administrator of Les Tonnelleries de Bourgogne, which oversees Tonnellerie Damy and Tonnellerie Billon's operations. The Damy barrels are well known around the world for aging some of the great wines of Meursault and Puligny Montrachet.
Keystone Cooperage, a subsidiary of Wilson Forest Products Inc., is a family owned and operated cooperage located in the heart of the northern Appalachian Mountains, in Jefferson, Pennsylvania. Keystone applies three generations of expertise in oak sourcing, seasoning and manufacturing to its top quality American oak barrels.
Vicard Tonnelleries is a family owned and operated cooperage in Cognac with an annual production of over 60,000 French, Eastern European and American oak barrels. Their barrels are sold all over the world and are especially in demand by producers of red wine, particularly Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
