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The series of wood aromas in wines highlights the  molecules that oak confers on wines during maturation. The wine maturation is a technically very delicate stage. The work of the oenologist and the cooper must be precise in order to sublimate the profile of the wine. Indeed, the aromatic molecules added during the ageing in […]

The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of Gustave Flaubert’s birth. Hard worker, Flaubert compiled many notes to prepare the writing of his novels, with scientific rigour and in order to give the most accurate account of reality possible. Flaubert did not deviate from his thirst for rigour in the descriptions of flora that he gave […]

The CHARLOIS Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of the DOREAU group by its subsidiary OAK NATION.   Moët Hennessy, the Wines & Spirits branch of LVMH, will hold through Maison Hennessy, main client of the DOREAU group, a minority party of its capital.   The operation responds to Thierry Doreau’s desire to perpetuate […]

The Menetou-Salon vineyard is located in the Cher department, between Bourges and Sancerre, in a wine-growing region where the presence of vines has been attested since Antiquity. The first historical mentions date back to the 11th century. These are acts relating to donations of vines, in particular to the Clos de Davet, made to various […]

At the end of October 1660, Colbert was about to complete his second voyage to the Duchy of Nevers. Faced with the magnitude of the task he still had to accomplish, Colbert warned his mentor that he would be forced to return to the Duchy the following year to carry out his mission: “And I […]

ONF Fall Sale of Nevers (October 15, 2021)   The big annual autumn sale of hardwood lumber from the public forests of Nièvre and Yonne departments was organized last week by the ONF in Clamecy, in the north of Nièvre *. Timber sales, organized throughout the year, are part of the forest management process necessary […]

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, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, […]

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 […]