Tharo Wine
Community Service in Stellenbosch

Tharo wine is a renowned name in the South African wine industry. Tharo wine is committed to supply quality products and service to the wine industry.Boutes is known for its excellent quality barrels and big vats and Tharo wine has been associated with this family cooperage for the past three years.Garonnaise is a small cooperage known for their barrels adding good subtle expressions on most wines and Tharo wine started representing them two years ago.Stockinger is a family owned Austrian cooperage known for their very exclusive big vats and Tharo wine started representing them one year ago. Tharo wine supplies oak wine barrels to most of the wineries in SA. Tharo wine is the distributor of three top quality oak wine barrels from France and Austria.

Tharo Wine is a family-owned business supplying quality products and services to the wine and food industry. It represents top European suppliers of barrels and wood-alternatives locally. Tharo wine also supplies UV-related products widely used for sterilization purposes in the food and wine industry. Components for these products are sourced locally and abroad to ensure the best quality at a cost effective price. Wife, Hazel, an Oenology graduate from the University of Stellenbosch and son Pieter, tend to administration and logistics. A whole range of oak wine barrels, oak tanks and vats are produced. Boutes strives to deliver high quality barrels that are known for respecting the fruit quality of wines, giving complexity, roundness and length without overpowering the wine with oak or toasting characters. These barrels are used on a variety of white and red wines by winemakers from all over the world. Garonnaise is a small artesian cooperage based in the town of Marmande, Bordeaux, France. Only the best seasoned stave wood is selected for making these barrels and to create the unique Expression characteristics. The toasting process is long and at low temperature. The Expression barrels are used on a variety of white and red wines by winemakers from all over the world. The cooperage is very small with only 15 workers based in the small town of Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the North Western part of Austria close to Salzburg. They are supplying mainly Austrian wineries and neighboring countries, Germany, Italy and France. The main characteristic of Stockinger barrels and vats is that it preserves the fruit of the wine enhancing the true flavors without overpowering it with oak taste. These barrels are suited for a big spectrum of wine varieties, especially those with less expressed fruit. The 'Traditional' toasting process mimics that of barrel toasting, the 'XOV' toasted products highlight the vanillin and sweet flavours and the 'XOS' toasted products highlight high vanillin and aromatics with subtle spicy oak. The aim always is the delivery of harmonious, elegant flavours without overpowering the wine. The spherical shape allows also an easier handling of the container in its movements and makes cleaning easier. The container is made of gres obtained starting from a mix of raw material selected with the precise aim of making it suitable for containment and aging of wine. This type of material guarantees an excellent chemical inertia and the absence of transfer of metallic ions to wine. Tharo Wine produces a variety of Ultra violet and Ozone products that are used in the wine and food industry. These lamps can either be germicidal UV or it can be dual purpose, with other words it also produces ozone. Some of the products we produce are: Barrel sterilizing lamps, Tank sterilizing lamps and Air sterilizing units.