Groupe Charlois welcomed this week Philippe Melka, one of the most influential consulting enologists of the Californian vineyard.
Specialized in the stave split for two centuries, Charlois family has since been constantly promoting the french oaks, including oaks from Bertranges forest, and their priceless forest heritage.
The Tronçais National Forest has an exceptional influence amongst French forests, an influence that goes well beyond mere national borders.
La Grange exhibition space showcases the art of cooperage but also the art of stave mill, through the presentation of works from Charlois collections. This exhibition immerses the visitor in the heart of the cooper’s universe and its immutable gestures, while emphasizing the importance of interactions between the barrel and its content, between oak and grapes.
In December the vine is immersed in its long winter sleep. A rest that does not enjoy the winemaker. For him, fresh season rhymes with dry pruning. A long step during which it is necessary to eliminate more than 80% of the vine shoots appeared past year.
After Nashville last year, Pittsburgh will host this year the ACSA (American Craft Spirits Association) Distillers Convention and Vendor Trade Show from March 4 to 6, 2018. Charlois Cooperage USA will welcome you to its booth #118.
The second postcard of the series « The Forest in Nivernais » shows a woodcutter practicing a directional cut on a tree in the Bertranges forest. This action, consisting of making a kind of pivot hinge, allows the woodcutter to guide the tree in its fall.
It’s strange, a tree, in winter. Motionless, dark, emaciated. Alone, against a background of white and dull sky. Subjected by the hostile assaults of wind, cold, rain and snow too. What is it doing ? How does it spend time ? Is it waiting ? But what exactly ?
The series of postcards « The Forest in Nivernais », published in 1903 by the folklorist poet Achille Millien, immersed us into the heart of the Bertranges forest to discover centuries-old practices of woodworkers and picturesque scenes of everyday life.
Tonnellerie Berthomieu / Ermitage will be present at the 2018 Oregon Wine Symposium on next February 20 and 21. This major event in the Portland region is a must-attend event for all wine actors.
