THE SOUTH AFRICA VINEYARDS
It was at the end of the 17th century, between 1688 and 1691, that more than 200 Huguenots fleeing France and its religious persecutions settled on a territory that was then almost uninhabited, the Bonne Espérance Cap colony, an essential stage on the trade route to India. Mostly from the Charente and Luberon regions, the […]
150 YEARS : SAURY COOPERAGE SINCE 1873 – Marcel Saury
In 1952, Marcel Saury, son of Marius, decided to leave the land of his ancestors and transfer the cooperage from Rieux-Minervois to Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze) in order to be closer to the Bordeaux vineyards and chestnut groves of Limousin, which were at that time the main type of wood used in Saury cooperage workshops. At first, […]
ZOOM ON GRAINS
The stave wood used for the barrels manufacture of Saury Cooperage is selected according to strict specifications, including traceability, quality and grain fineness. The grain fineness of oak stavewood for cooperage is calculated from the interval between the growth rings, also called growth rings, or their number / cm. One interval corresponds to one year […]