StoneAir Micro-Climates
Where Whisky Tradition Meets Atmospheric Science
Where Whisky Tradition Meets Atmospheric Science
The RockBox Air is a precision engineered maturation pod designed to recreate the broad environmental patterns of traditional dunnage climates anywhere on Earth. It gives distillers the ability to age whisky authentically regardless of geography while maintaining stable temperature, humidity, airflow and natural cask respiration within appropriate tolerances.
Inside each unit, the internal architecture is designed to support moisture buffering and gentle air movement in a way that echoes traditional earthen-floor warehouses. The system prioritises the natural rhythms that allow a barrel to breathe, interact with the oak, and evolve over time.
Looking ahead, the roadmap includes advanced climate-profiling tools that allow distillers to shape their maturation environment with far more intention and repeatability, informed by real warehouse behaviour rather than simple static set points.
Each unit can operate as a standalone micro-warehouse or as part of a small modular array, allowing distillers to scale capacity a cask at a time without committing to large buildings. The system is deployable indoors or outdoors, expanding maturation space with minimal civil works and full environmental traceability.
Every chamber will log its operating conditions to a secure digital record, supporting compliance, consistency and provenance. The long-term goal is to compete with large warehouse infrastructure on a barrel-for-barrel basis while improving environmental performance, reducing losses and offering unprecedented control.
Authentic ageing, engineered for the modern era. Scalable, practical and crafted to give distillers access to world-class maturation conditions wherever they operate.
StoneAir Micro Climates holds a UK patent pending position around the RockBox Air concept and is working toward the first working prototypes.
Independent engineering assessments suggest that the target performance ranges for temperature, humidity, airflow and pressure control sit comfortably within established capabilities in high precision climate and test chambers.
The next stage is to fabricate and field test early units in live distillery environments across contrasting climates. These trials are designed to compare matched casks in traditional warehouses with casks inside RockBox pods, generating a transparent data set that will guide product refinement and future certification work.
We are currently seeking equity partners and strategic investors to help fund this prototype and testing phase, with the aim of moving from a validated concept to a physical, data driven maturation platform ready for real world trials.
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