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The employees of Tonnellerie Baron decarbonize!
The year is off to a great start for the team that took part in the 2 Tonnes (2 Tons) workshop, whose objective is to raise awareness among employees about the impact of human beings on climate change. If the Paris Agreement works to limit the rise in temperature to...
ALMA – Aging with care
Born from the craft of coopers and their knowledge in great wine aging and Vinification Intégrale© *, ALMA is the fusion of ceramic and oak in an ovoid format. This new concept, created by our design office on site, offers a unique solution for the fermentation and...
PORTRAIT OF RAPHAËLLE REEVES-RIBIÈRE, QSE MANAGER AT THE BARON TONNELLERIE
Since May 2021, she has been part of the Baron team and tells us about the issues and challenges of her position within the cooperage.
From artistic culture to market gardening: Tristan, Tonnellerie Baron’s gardnener
Trained as a sound technician, driven by a creative instinct, always looking to expand his artistic palette, Tristan, eager to work in the open air and make good use of his new passions, joined Tonnellerie Baron in February 2021 to plant, cultivate, feed his mind and...
Target Precision
FROM JANUARY 1, 2021 WE ANALYZE AND GUARANTEE THAT 100% OF OUR BARRELS ARE FREE OF ANY DETECTABLE TCA* AT THE COMPLETION OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS Our latest innovation comes as a response to an often-neglected issue which can nevertheless pose a serious threat...
Current vintage 2020 / Bordeaux Right Bank
End of September, we hit the road to visit our clients on the right bank of Bordeaux. Usually, they are still harvesting Merlot grapes at this time, but the winemakers are already busy in the cellars, to look at the Cabernet that remains on the vines. Todeschini...
The film
The history of Tonnellerie Baron has been part of the great tradition of French cooperage since 1875.
Light the fire
Simon is one of the youngest coopers on the team. Graduating as a cabinetmaker, trained as a carpenter and luthier, he spends his time in the cooperage shaping the staves, and toasting the barrels, but has also spent time and improved, at the same time, on other...
Training and experience of the coopers
Visiting the Tonnellerie Baron workshop means observing techniques and processes dedicated to the transformation of logs into staves. The know-how with natural precision of the workshop workers makes us wonder about the training and transmission of these artistic...
Tonnellerie Baron, patron of « Plantons pour l’Avenir »
At Tonnellerie Baron, we are inspired daily by the desire to minimize the carbon footprint of our activity and by the will to show the way to the new generations. Our common sense guides us towards an environmental policy that is permanent, to guarantee the longevity...