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As the global spirits industry navigates a phase of inventory rebalancing, CHARLOIS announces significant new investments through OAKING, its integrated cask management platform

Nothing’s impossible if you go for it! Every day, at the crack of dawn, Morgan heads off to work at the Tonnellerie Doreau in Gensac. It’s a ritual that hasn’t changed since he was 15, when he began learning the cooper’s trade from his mentor, Thierry Doreau. 20 years later, Morgan is still at the […]

We recently welcomed Sister Samuelle, an artist from the Charlois group, in Murlin, to discover the group’s activities and meet craftsmen of the Manufacture tonnelière La Grange for an opportunity to share their respective skills. The aim is for Sister Samuelle to one day take one of the coopers’ creations and make it her own. […]

In the continuation of the measures to strengthen our corporate structure, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Nathalie Toussaint-Varin to the post of Legal Director of OAK NATION, the subsidiary of the Charlois Group that reunites all the trades relating to the forest and wine, such as forestry, sawmill operations, stave-making, cooperag [...]

Once received on the Murlin site, the logs were cut into sections. This step was carried out with a two-men chainsaw. This type of chainsaw became widespread in sawmills after the Second World War: one man was placed on the engine side and the second at the other end to guide the blade. The logs […]

The Charlois family has always enjoyed a close relationship with the Bertranges forest and its century-old oak trees. It was therefore only natural for the Charlois family to have sourced, for several centuries, high-quality oak staves from this exceptional forest that is now managed by the ONF (National Forest Office). These photographs taken by J [...]

We are often contacted by people in possession of photographs, texts, tools and other elements relating to the Charlois group’s activities. Jean-Louis Binder, a keen photographer and friend of the Charlois family, recently sent us photographs from a period when he could regularly be found in Murlin between the early 1950s and the late 1960s. […]

Friday October 6 was the traditional Autumn timber sale of the ONF Bourgogne-Ouest agency (Nièvre and Yonne), in Clamecy.8:30 am, Romain-Rolland room, 1st floor of the Town Hall. The room is filling up fast. The bidding is about to begin. Among 30 or so buyers present, or on videoconference, Maison Charlois is well represented, with […]

Charlois Group is proud to announce that Oakwood Cooperage has been awarded this year’s Highland Business Award for Global Growth for its outstanding international growth in the used cask market for spirits. The Highland Business Awards are given annually by the Inverness* Chamber of Commerce as part of Highland Business Week. The 12 awards are […]