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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 […]

Oaks may be sold either standing, roadside or cut to size.   Standing timber: lTrees offered for sale are marked or selected by the seller (ONF, forestry expert…), in the forest, to form a batch. Once the deed of sale has been signed, the buyer becomes the owner and is responsible for harvesting, felling and […]

Cooperage oak is a rare material from the forest. There are different types of oak used for maturing wines and spirits. French oak, European oak and American oak.   French oak French oaks, sessile (quercus petraea) and pedunculate (quercus robur), are used only for maturing fine wines. These slow-growing oaks produce very fine grains. Sessile […]

“Imagine up to 300 years between the growth of a young oak, the drying process, maturation, and the moment when we taste a vintage aged in one of its barrels!”.   It takes 1,500 naturally regenerated seedlings to harvest a single oak tree with a diameter of 80 cm. It takes 1,500 naturally regenerated seedlings […]