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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 Atelier XXL 2024 for the second-year DNMADE students at École Boulle is like their own Olympic Games. They’ve been preparing for it for two years, without knowing the theme they would be working on, nor the materials they would have at their disposal. They had five days to submit their projects. A true challenge. […]

Every year, the École Boulle organizes a week-long workshop, called Ateler XXL, for students in their 2nd year of the “Diplôme Nationale des Métiers d’Art et du Design” (DNMADE).” The idea behind Atelier XXL is to challenge students to work with recycled materials to create objects and/or furniture of superior quality (upcycling). The aim is […]

Having already worked closely with Sylvain Charlois from 2015 to 2018, ICG has now acquired a stake in OAK NATION, taking over from Latour Capital, BNP Développement, Idia and SGCP, who have supported the group’s strong growth over the last five years.   This new partnership allows Sylvain Charlois to strengthen his position as the […]

The wood reader   He’s one of those people you just want to let speak, to listen. On a short distance of a well-deserved vacation, José Simoes, 66, has spent over thirty years at Maison Charlois. Meet him.   It is a few minutes past 4pm. José has just stacked and sorted his last pieces […]

For a day, they left their Côte-d’Or vineyard to visit Murlin. An opportunity to discover a site, a story and ancestral know-how. A guided visit on the other side of wine.   They braved the fog and crossed Morvan to reach Murlin mid-morning. They are winemakers, customers of Tonnellerie Marsannay, and their estates cover prestigious […]

Time is something you can’t control. You have to deal with it. For cooperage, it’s the same thing. There are crucial steps to follow. A virtuous cycle to select the best stave oaks to supply cooperages.   The oaks harvested from forests are at least 150 to 180 years old. The oaks purchased by wood […]

The Charlois group has many customers all over the world, including Greece. A delegation spent a few days visiting Murlin and the group’s various sites in the Nièvre region.   Three days in France, including two full days in Nièvre to discover cooperage, of course, but also forestry and stave mill trades. The program was […]

It seems as if the sun had been ordered on purpose for this morning spent harvesting liber cambium, the ultra-moisturizing active ingredient in La Chênaie’s PETRASEVE® line, which is harvested once a year in the Bertranges forest.   The shipment had been planned for just over a week. Given the recent weather, rain gear and […]

In 2010, Carole Georges and Jean-François Dumont took up a rather crazy challenge: to restore the centuries-old art of Nevers earthenware to its former glory by infusing it with a healthy dose of modernity, while preserving its traditional know-how.   Developed in Nevers at the end of the 16th century by the Conrade brothers, originally […]