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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

The Charlois Group encourages all its employees to limit their use of office printers as much as possible, and to significantly reduce paper consumption.    As part of this initiative each employee is encouraged to adopt good practices, starting by asking themselves if it is really necessary to print a document. To reduce paper consumption […]

The economic activity of Bercy peaked at the end of the 19th century, when the district became the biggest (greatest) wine-making platform of world. Bercy was then transformed into a working-class district in fashion where they came become intoxicated and dance. Diverse parties (holidays) as jousts on the water or races (shopping) of cyclists of [… [...]

Published in October 2018, the book The oak in majesty, from forest to wine highlights the concept of forest terroir: a specific soil, aspect, and rainfall, as well as a particular exposure to sunlight, to which should be added the species or variety of tree, the density of plantation, as well as average age, all […]

This map of the “Nivernium ducatus Gallice [in Gallic] Duché de Nevers” is taken from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum or Atlas novus by Willem and Joan Blaeu.   From the year 1635, Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), dutch cartographer and editor, published its Theatrum Orbis Terrarum made of 600 maps hand-coloured after printing, which explained its cost. […]

An ancestral roofing material resolutely turned towards the future and sustainable development   Always concerned with the optimization of using oak raw material as much as possible, the Charlois group values staves that are too short for the cooperage into oak tiles* for roofing buildings.   Formerly used in countries where there was a lot […]

An Ancestral Roofing Material Firmly Focused on Sustainability and the Future   With a constant commitment to optimizing the use of oak as a raw material, the Charlois Group repurposes oak staves that are too short for cooperage into oak tiles for building roofs.   Historically used in regions abundant with wood, wooden tiles eventually […]

The presence of vines is attested in the Nièvre since the Gallo-Roman era. But the Nièvre viticulture, as many other vineyards, truly flourished in the Middle Ages thanks to the religious Orders.   Nièvre vineyards are mainly located along the Loire and today cover around 1.500 hectares (Pouilly-sur-Loire and Pouilly Fumé : 1.240 hectares ; Coteaux [...]