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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

October 22, 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of Georges Brassens.   A true poet of French song, Brassens handled the French language with virtuosity and his verses still resonate, despite his passing forty years ago, in the ears of many of us.   Trees, and in general the animal and plant worlds, occupy […]

The American chestnut oak (Quercus montana), commonly called Rock chesnut oak in English, is a tree of the Fagaceae family whose natural range extends from the center to the northeast of the United States of America, the Appalachian Mountains constituting its southern limit: Alabama, North and South Carolina, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinoi [...]

Cardinal Mazarin’s private secretary, in charge of his possessions and his immense fortune, Colbert takes possession of the Duchy of Nièvre on behalf of Mazarin in 1659. During Autumn 1660, Colbert starts a second journey in the Duchy to implement the necessary reforms for its reorganization. Once there, he sends a letter to Mazarin on […]

In the heart of France, on the banks of the Loire river, stands the famous Sancerre vineyard.   Recognized for its Sauvignon Blanc, the reputation of the wines of Sancerre has been well established for many centuries … In fact, traces of vine culture can be found in Sancerre since Antiquity.   In 582, Grégoire […]

The Hungarian oak (Quercus frainetto or Quercus conferta) is a tree of the Fagaceae family whose natural range extends from central Italy to northwestern Turkey: Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia), Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary , Italy, Romania and Turkey.   Use of Hungarian oak The wood of the Hungarian oak i [...]

« Ensuring that the forester renews the forest is the primary criterion for sustainable management in public forests. »   Particularly attentive to respecting forest environments, enhancing their value, and ensuring the sustainability of their management, we meticulously monitor the origin of our oak supplies. We strictly select our suppliers and s [...]

“To ensure that the forester renews the forest is the main criterion in the public forests”   Particularly attentive to the forest environments respect and to the sustainability of their management, we are ensuring the origin of our oak supplies, by carefully choosing our providers and by systematically favouring PEFC certification. ONF (Office nat [...]

The Jury of the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine), which met in Paris on September 9, 2021, this year awarded 16 Prizes and 10 Special Mentions from around sixty publications in competition.   Today, we are very proud to announce that the work “Le Chêne en majesté, de la forêt au vin”, written […]

While the use of oak (Quercus robur, Quercus petraea and Quercus alba) dominates today very largely the cooperage, it has not always been so. Different archaeological studies have indeed shown that the barrels were originally made of softwood. Oak has established itself over the centuries, first for mechanical issues, then more recently for its org [...]