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Tonnellerie Rousseau is a family business run today by Jean Marie Rousseau. This small cooperage sells most of its production to the nearby vineyards of Burgundy, as well as to the main wine producing regions of Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, California, Oregon and Chile.
Since its creation in 1954, the Rousseau cooperage has always based its strength on the same core values: Maintaining tradition, the love of a job well done, the constant pursuit for quality, which led, a few months ago, to the ISO 22000 and PEFC accreditation, and last but not least, family values.
It is no coincidence that the cooperage trained 10 Best Craftsmen of France
(« MOF:”Meilleur Ouvrier de France »), including Julien Rousseau, the founder, his son Jean-Marie (the General Manager) and his grandson Jean-Christophe, manager of the large formats unit. This had never been seen before in the French cooperage industry!
The tradition of long, open-air drying of the oak, with exposure to the rain, wind and sun, reduces excessively green tannins and helps the polymerization of the "noble" oak tannins. This long natural seasoning process contributes to the final quality of Rousseau Barrels. Careful selection of "merrain" stave-wood also guarantees the best raw material available is used by their Master Coopers. Bending and Toasting, using oak chips is carefully monitored to ensure that barrels meet our client's specifications. Their master coopers apply slow extraction toasting to yield the best, most harmonious tannins and oak aromatics.
For more information, please visit Rousseau's website: www.tonnellerie-rousseau.com/
or download their latest barrels & casks/tanks catalog here
Since its creation in 1954, the Rousseau cooperage has always based its strength on the same core values: Maintaining tradition, the love of a job well done, the constant pursuit for quality, which led, a few months ago, to the ISO 22000 and PEFC accreditation, and last but not least, family values.
It is no coincidence that the cooperage trained 10 Best Craftsmen of France
(« MOF:”Meilleur Ouvrier de France »), including Julien Rousseau, the founder, his son Jean-Marie (the General Manager) and his grandson Jean-Christophe, manager of the large formats unit. This had never been seen before in the French cooperage industry!
The tradition of long, open-air drying of the oak, with exposure to the rain, wind and sun, reduces excessively green tannins and helps the polymerization of the "noble" oak tannins. This long natural seasoning process contributes to the final quality of Rousseau Barrels. Careful selection of "merrain" stave-wood also guarantees the best raw material available is used by their Master Coopers. Bending and Toasting, using oak chips is carefully monitored to ensure that barrels meet our client's specifications. Their master coopers apply slow extraction toasting to yield the best, most harmonious tannins and oak aromatics.
For more information, please visit Rousseau's website: www.tonnellerie-rousseau.com/
or download their latest barrels & casks/tanks catalog here
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