A Revolution in Wine & Spirits Technology
Ten years ago, a team of inventors and technologists with 27 patents aimed to transform spirits and wine using electromagnetic energy, enhancing quality in real time. Their breakthrough, the Steric Process, can revolutionize the $917 billion wine and spirits industries.
Steric Systems’ patent-pending process lets producers fine tune wine and spirits in ways never before possible. By running products through this software-driven equipment, makers can streamline operations, greatly improve quality, and rescue flawed products.
- A major age-old challenge for the world’s largest distilleries is blending product batches with a wide variation of characteristics into a uniform tasting “branded” product.
- Steric can stream-line (and potentially automate) a significant portion of the blending process for major distillers.
- The impact could significantly enhance in-plant operating efficiencies, reducing working capital, inventory levels and blending/testing personnel.
- Steric enables Bulk/Private Label producers to substitute lesser quality spirit inputs to produce comparable quality spirits.
- Bulk producers can lower input costs up to 40% while maintaining quality, potentially materially expanding Cost of Goods Sold margins.
Steric greatly enhances flavors, aroma and mouthfeel, thereby providing distillers and winemakers with many revenue and margin driving options.
- Moving spirits and wine products “up one shelf” supports higher wholesale/retail pricing for distillers.
- Steric can be used to create multiple new quality SKUs from a single product.
- Steric can allow younger spirits to come to market sooner, for example, making a two-year-old whiskey taste more like a four-year-old whiskey. This allows distillers lower inventory levels and associated carrying costs.
- Steric can convert low quality products that might otherwise be disposed of into saleable higher quality products
- The wine (and to a lesser extent spirits) industry must contend with a substantial amount of production that is subpar or not saleable as a bottom-end product.
- Steric can rescue and make saleable a major portion of this product that would otherwise be disposed of, materially impacting producer revenues and margins.
Customer Validation Successes
Balance:
From nose to full flavors, to long, lingering finish.
Reduce:
Reduce tannins and oak, industrial nose, and off-flavors.
Soften:
Tame the burn.
Differentiate:
Multiple unique SKUs from the same in-house distilled or sourced product.
Reveal:
Make flavors more distinct and accessible.
Polish:
Raise premium spirits to their fullest potential.
Balance:
from nose to full flavors, to long, lingering finish.
Reduce
tannins and oak, industrial node, and off-flavors.
Soften:
tame the burn.
Differentiate:
multiple unique SKUs from the same in-house distilled or sourced product.
Reveal:
make flavors more distinct and accesible.
Polish:
raise premium spirits to their fullest potential.
Balance:
fully integrate expressions of acid, fruit, tannin, and alcohol.
Reduce
over-oaked notes and eliminate off-flavors
Differentiate:
multiple unique SKUs from the same in-house or sourced products.
Mouthfeel:
create a fuller, more balanced experience.