Barrel Chef Society

The future of tequila is in your own barrel.

For wine, the oak barrel and the level of toast make up about 50% of the flavor. For spirits, the charred wood makes up more like 85-95% of the flavor.
— Master Cooper Ramiro Herrera

Barrel Chef Society is delighted to now offer limited edition 30L French oak barrels. These artisanal vessels are hand-crafted and toasted in Champagne-France by Master Cooper Ramiro Herrera, one of only a few dozen master coopers who’ve earned this title in the world today. He hand crafts the most extraordinary oak barrels in the world, each attuned to the nuances and characters he wants to achieve in wine and tequila. These cooper-branded artisan barrels deliver the highest quality & design, built with 24 month-air-dried split oak staves that came from trees that were forest-selected in France by Master Ramiro himself.

True Tequila connoisseurs notably love an exceptional tequila and look for any reason to call it something special. After decades of modern tequila culture, Juan De Leon Tequila has arrived and is committed to delivering on that demand by creating a rubric for “special.” 

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Having your very own artisan barrel with our unique award winning tequila inside, is more than just a potential hobby or a great gift—it could be the focal point when entertaining friends. Imagine serving friends your signature drink from your own artisan barrel, right in your very own home. If you love tequila, you understand the difference between top shelf tequila and the less expensive bottom shelf. You very likely appreciate the subtle difference a simple ingredient or a distiller’s touch can make in a fine tequila, so you also know that the star ingredient in the entire tequila aging process is the tequila barrel itself. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the perfect gift is worth a million.