French oak forests are rightly revered for their sheer beauty and their essential contribution to fine wine.
Tonnellerie Ô selectively sources only the finest French oak from the top forests in France. All our French oak is air dried and seasoned for
30+ months at carefully controlled seasoning yards.
Tonnellerie Ô maintains strict quality assurance and traceability protocols for our oak. Periodically at our seasoning yards, and again prior
to leaving France, we verify compliance with our exacting quality standards for critical factors such as grain tightness, style, moisture and volume, and
track the forest origin of each individual stave lot. Inside our cooperage, our innovative tagging procedure ensures 100% traceability of wood from arrival
through the making of our barrels.
Here’s another critical difference: Tonnellerie Ô imports our French oak as rough stave blanks, receiving each lot directly into our
cooperage. Starting with wood from the rough blank stage (rather than receiving pre-shaped staves) enables us to control every phase of production and
to optimize precision, consistency and waste reduction.
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