EnoKube is a project born from a union of intentions and professions. Its main promoter was Enrico Cusinato, former director of RINA (Italian Naval Register) and great wine enthusiast. Josko Gravner, the guru of Italian winemakers with his winery on the Gorizia border between Italy and Slovenia, has embraced, as a true pioneer, the idea of trying to use a new container for wine. I, as a producer, put my experience at the service of the idea. In 2024, Enrico Cusinato took the first step by contacting me and presenting what he had in mind to do: build a glass wine jar, a neutral material that guarantees, as a result of contact with the container, the unalterable characteristics of the wine.
After concrete, steel, and pottery, to name just a few examples, the use of glass represented something innovative in the wine sector.
Enrico told me that he had also contacted another important Venetian company in the industrial glass sector but, the solutions that this one had suggested did not convince him. So, we started to plan the construction of this new container following my path and the “zero customer” was Josko Gravner, winegrower of Collio already in contact with Enrico and aware of his intentions.
Josko has always been at the forefront of wine production, especially with regard to the cultivation of vineyards and the preservation of the gift of Bacchus. Historically, his figure stands out as a pioneer of the method and types of oenology.
During a three-way meeting, held inside the walls of Benvenuto Mastri Vetrai, we drew up a draft of what would be EnoKube. With Josko there was an immediate personal as well as professional affinity, which led me to cultivate the relationship and to go, with great pleasure, to visit his wine cellar to better understand how the container for the wine should be.
EnoKube is a cube in tempered glass with the topper that has a slight convexity of a few millimeters in order to allow the correct filling and the conveying of air towards the upper cover. The initial capacity, from which we started, was ten hectolitres and another important feature was to make EnoKube stackable. You can organize your cellar with different EnoKube placed one on top of the other.
Within six months we built the first prototype for Gravner wineries and decided on the name, proposed by me earlier, EnoKube.
Thanks to the knowledge of Enrico, wine lover with many contacts of wineries and winegrowers throughout Italy, we immediately produced and delivered six more containers.
Compared to the initial prototype, implementations have been made to improve it. Since the product can be customized and configured by the customer, it was possible to modify it according to requirements.
For example, the door on the front, which is used for cleaning, can be made of steel or glass; other accessories, such as the wine pin, the valve on the bottom, the valve for partial or total emptying, the upper cover are optional and made of Aisi 316L steel.
To produce the latter, modifications were necessary in order to make them suitable for glass. We have also started to think about the possibility of making containers of fifteen hectolitres, which can also be stacked.
The challenge of producing a glass object for the food industry has brought me into contact with an area I had not previously explored and with the regulations governing everything that comes into contact with food. The field is wide and detailed. My experience has supported me and supports me very much in this too.
Having an engineer who joined us from a technical and mathematical point of view has undoubtedly made the work easier. One of the moments where my knowledge of glass made a difference was definitely when you had to decide how to proceed with the gluing.
Having immediately discarded the UV bonding, not suitable for the wine sector and rigid to the point that it does not absorb any movement, made me go for a type of glue, much more elastic and that proved to be excellent for the purpose we wanted.

Presentations EnoKube 2025

To present EnoKube there will be two major events dedicated to the wine industry.
On February 7, 2025, at the Cantine Gravner, a first event called “Non in sole anfore vive il vino” will take place to illustrate the new containers.
A second presentation will be held in Tuscany, at Il Borro, on 21 February, on the occasion of the “Valdarno di Sopra Day 2025”, an event dedicated to the world of wine and which will be attended by many journalists both Italian and foreign.