With three distinct massifs spread over the Indre and the Cher, this forest of 5,100 hectares (12,600 acres) is located on a fairly heterogeneous geological base of sand, clay, and limestone.
It’s not a coincidence that Groupe Charlois has ordered Sève (Sap) from La Cabane Perchée®. This œuvre d’art, symbolizing the tree and its nutrient fluid, enhances the “land art” promenade currently being created in the heart of the Bertranges, as a tribute to the forest and to the crafts with strong know-how associated.
A former seigniorial property before becoming royal hunting land, the forest of Chinon covers 5,100 hectares (12,600 acres) of predominantly sessile oak (52%), although Scots (25%), and maritime (17%) pine, as well as beech, vie for space with the cooper’s favorite wood.
At 5,300 hectares (13,096 acres), the national forest of Châteauroux is a prime example of a forest massif of the Atlantic type. 99% of it is oak, 80% sessile and 20% common.
In the forest of Blois, the last remnant of the ancient forest of Blémars that until the 13th century covered most of the Tours part of the Gâtine, the sessile oak is dominant to the tune of 100%.
The massif of Bitche in the Moselle comprises 19,000 hectares (almost 47,000 acres) of national forest and more than 1000 hectares (2470 acres) of locally held forest.
Since the venerable oak forest of Bertranges grows in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region, it might be said that it was destined for wine by its very geography.
South of the Sarthe, between Tours and Le Mans, the national forest of Bercé, that the stavemakers dub Jupilles, is one of the finest oak forests in all of France.
Forests of Compierre, « Mont-Maçon » (Montmasson) and Champallement once depended on the châtellenie of Champallement. Located on Champallement municipality, those former ducal forests are now private forests.
This publication – one of the most beautiful ever published about wood – gathers a collection of engravings of European and exotic hand coloured wood samples.
