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The Communion of Expertise for Wines of Excellence   We are pleased to announce the creation of the TONNELLERIE DES CLOS brand, 100% Burgundy, from oak to craftsmanship.   The very name Clos evokes a journey. A journey through the vineyards of Burgundy. A journey through history, back to the time when monks crafted wine. […]

Optimizing oak raw material is at the heart of the Charlois group’s commitments, which recycles 100% of its wood raw material, of which nearly 90% in-house.   As Jean-Louis Binder’s photographies from the 1960s and the Maison Charlois archives testify, this policy of recycling production by-products (coquerons, short off-cuts, shavings, sawdust, sw [...]

As mentioned in previous instalments of the series devoted to photographs taken by Jean-Louis Binder in Murlin in the 1950s and 1960s, Maison Charlois used to produce both split timber and sawn timber, including a large number of railway sleepers.   The market for railway sleepers was massive back then. To understand the size of […]

Thanks to Jean-Louis Binder’s photographs, we can provide a visual record of Maison Charlois’ activities in the 1950s and 1960s. At that time, the Charlois family already had in its DNA a desire to make the most of every raw material, shaping all parts of the oak tree, whatever their dimensions. The workshop produced both […]

Once received on the Murlin site, the logs were cut into sections. This step was carried out with a two-men chainsaw. This type of chainsaw became widespread in sawmills after the Second World War: one man was placed on the engine side and the second at the other end to guide the blade.   The […]

The Charlois family has always enjoyed a close relationship with the Bertranges forest and its century-old oak trees. It was therefore only natural for the Charlois family to have sourced, for several centuries, high-quality oak staves from this exceptional forest that is now managed by the ONF (National Forest Office). These photographs taken by J [...]

We are often contacted by people in possession of photographs, texts, tools and other elements relating to the Charlois group’s activities. Jean-Louis Binder, a keen photographer and friend of the Charlois family, recently sent us photographs from a period when he could regularly be found in Murlin between the early 1950s and the late 1960s. […]

Tonnellerie Saury is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. To celebrate this exceptional event, the Saury Cooperage has created the “150” barrel in a limited edition, numbered and produced in 150 copies, for 2023. The “150” barrel honors its coopers, the Saury family and the rare oak woods used in cooperage, whose average age is […]

L’Atelier du Foudrier, the Charlois Group’s foudre (large oak vat) cooperage, has developed an innovative stirring system for round and oval casks. Drawing on its experience of in-vat bâtonnage, develop and perfected for a high-profile customer in 2013, and in response to the growing popularity of foudres, the Charlois Group’s design office has dev [...]

The CHARLOIS group, through its subsidiary OAK NATION, and the company ANTIGONE are pleased to announce a majority stake in OAKWOOD COOPERAGE through BLUE OAK (a holding company owned 51% by OAK NATION and 49% by ANTIGONE).   By investing in OAKWOOD COOPERAGE, OAK NATION is making a commitment to the Scottish whisky market. This […]

The CHARLOIS Group, through its subsidiary OAK NATION, and the ANTIGONE company are pleased to announce that they have taken a majority stake in OAKWOOD COOPERAGE via BLUE OAK (a holding held for 51% by OAK NATION and 49% by ANTIGONE).   Through this investment in OAKWOOD COOPERAGE, OAK NATION takes a step into the Scottish whisky market. This […]

Tonnellerie Bernard is established in Lignières-Sonneville, in the heart of the “Grande Champagne” where the best cognacs are produced.   Armand Maurice Bernard founded the first family cooperage in 1936. He passed on his passion and his knowledge to his son who took over the cooperage before to pass on it to his own son, […]