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Innovation Award 2025: Beaucarnea, the black box for fine winesLa Revue du vin de France honours Beaucarnea at its 2025 Grands Prix. Denis Saverot explores the origins of the mechanical capsule and its memory of the temperatures experienced by each bottle.Read the article
An invention recognised by the Concours Lépine could prove revolutionary. Sealed into the bottle’s punt, this memory thermometer records temperature changes that can damage fine wines. Here is how it works.
Beaucarnea’s invention: a major step forward in wine preservationNeozone explains how Beaucarnea’s mechanical capsule works, how it remembers extreme temperatures, and the awards this innovation has received.Read the article
Frédéric Simottel joins Remy Barret to explore the latest technological innovations. On the agenda: the Wine Paris–Vinexpo fair, which opened the previous day at Porte de Versailles.
Beaucarnea is the brainchild of Tegwen Naveos. A trained sommelier and award-winning chef who spent more than 15 years running restaurants in Brittany and Switzerland, he now heads natural wine retailer Pur Jus. His passion for wine and entrepreneurship led him to develop this innovative tool.
As wine changes hands, how can you be certain it has been stored properly? Beaucarnea has developed a capsule that records the bottle’s temperature, helping safeguard the wine’s quality.
How can you tell whether a wine has been stored correctly, and whether its quality has been preserved? An inventive wine lover answered this question by creating a mechanical temperature history for bottles.
The Beaucarnea device, a Concours Lépine gold medallist, fits into wine bottles and permanently records the minimum and maximum temperatures they have experienced.
On 7 May 2023, Tegwen Naveos, from Larmor-Plage in Morbihan, won a gold medal at the Concours Lépine for Beaucarnea, a capsule designed to transform wine preservation.
Created by a company in Brittany, this capsule reveals the highest and lowest temperatures a bottle has experienced during transport, helping preserve its quality even after a journey around the world. The article quotes a price of around €15.
Sealed into the base of a bottle, Tegwen Naveos’s invention reveals at a glance the minimum and maximum temperatures the wine has experienced.
Innovation reaches every sector, including the tradition-rich world of wine. How are new technologies transforming wine, and what major changes can we expect in the years ahead?
CREACC 2023: an evening unveiling the winners of the 21st edition, promising names in Brittany’s next generation of entrepreneurs.
A gold medallist at France’s inventors’ competition, the sealed Beaucarnea capsule is designed to verify the temperature conditions in which fine wines have been stored. At the time of the article, the prototype was being brought to market ahead of industrial production.
France’s wine industry remains a national flagship and its second-largest export sector after aerospace. Sustainability, the environment, traceability and changing consumption habits: Maddyness selected seven startups taking wine into a new era.
Invented by Tegwen Naveos to improve fine-wine traceability, Beaucarnea won a gold medal at the 2023 Concours Lépine.
The innovative wine-traceability capsule presented by Beaucarnea, a young company based in Larmor-Plage, won a gold medal at the Concours Lépine on 7 May 2023.
With a new system intended to transform wine preservation, Tegwen Naveos, from Larmor-Plage in Morbihan, set his sights on the Concours Lépine, held in Paris from 27 April to 8 May 2023.
The Beaucarnea capsule is made in the Haut-Doubs by two manufacturers, AML Production and Microérosion, while the idea originated in Brittany. Awarded gold at the Concours Lépine, the innovation could, according to the article, have its own factory in the region within five years if demand materialises.
At Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris, Beaucarnea’s Tegwen Naveos discussed his Concours Lépine gold medal and his tool for recording the temperatures experienced by a bottle of wine.
The Beaucarnea capsule won gold at the 2023 Concours Lépine. Designed to verify wine storage conditions and origin, the invention has already attracted several wine estates in Burgundy.
Each month, Capital highlights entrepreneurs with a bright idea. Tegwen Naveos is among those selected.
Beaucarnea participe au Concours Lépine 2023 !
Venez découvrir notre innovation sur la Foire de Paris jusqu’au 8 mai.
Pavillon 1, Allée V, Stand 9.
