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Article: How French are French barrels? Cooperage group creates charter to define oak origins for wine barrels.(WINEMAKING)
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- Wines & Vines
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- September 1, 2009
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In an effort to ensure the origin of wood that is used to make oak barrels, a French cooperage trade association has submitted a charter to the government to create "a common rule and a coherent definition" of forest designations. The charter is designed to break old habits in the cooperage industry and set more clear standards for wood origins.
The charter sets a strict standard of 100% French-grown wood for any barrel labeled or marketed as French. It allows more leeway for barrels with more specific geographic regions. (They may contain as little as 70% wood from the named region.) The charter also seeks to curtail the once-popular Troncais and Nevers ...
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