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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

Banister oak (Quercus ilicifolia), also called the Bear Oak or Hollyleaf, is a tree from the Fagaceae family. It owes its name to the missionary John Banister (1650-1692) who discovered it in Virginia and included it in his Catalog of Plants Obesreved in Virginia, published in John Ray’s History of Plants (1686). Banister then designated […]

Organized since 2011 by the magazine Terre Sauvage and the Office national des Forêts, the contest of the Tree of the year rewards each year French trees for their aesthetic, biologic and historic qualities but also for the link between the group of people or the person who proposed that tree to the tree itself. […]

Jean Charlois, seventh generation, was born in Chaulgnes on August 21, 1807. He is the son of Jeanne Lithier (widow of Jean Charlois, 1782-1805, prematurely deceased) and Louis Charlois (brother of Jean Charlois, 1782-1805). First Empire was in full expansion at the time after the victories of Eylau (8 February 1807) and Friedland (14 June […]

Agroecology* constitutes a set of practices aimed to conceive production systems differently by oftenly reintroducing into them what once existed. Agroecology is therefore opposed to the model of intensive monoculture which, in the wine sector, results in monoculture vineyards in rows. The ancestral wine-growing practices linked to the tree, whethe [...]

Agroecology encompasses a set of practices aimed at rethinking production systems by reintroducing elements that were often present in the past. It stands in opposition to the intensive monoculture model, which in viticulture often translates into monoculture vineyards planted in rows. Traditional viticultural practices involving trees—whether as s [...]

Beauty of winter sceneries in the Bertranges forest, magnified by the photograph Christophe Deschanel.

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2021 !

More accostumated to the bitumen than to the centuries-old oaks used in cooperage, Jordane Saget succeeds in magnifying this original medium, thus reminding the art of the painting on tondo (circular painting which became popular in Italy during the 15th century).   Thanks to this order made by Le Clos Des Fées, the artist paid a special tribute [… [...]