Wood, a precious raw material

Damy's demanding specifications:
In cooperage, as in wine, the quality of the raw material conditions that of the finished product. The Damy Cooperage uses a very strict wood selection process, in close collaboration with their stave-makers, in order to provide wine-growers, cellar masters and oenologists with the very best oak species from the greatest forests.

We therefore offer a representative range of the various French and foreign species of oak:

• Oak from the forest of Allier, Vosges, Nièvre, Burgundy and Central France
• Oak from Eastern European Countries
• American oak

Our additional guarantee:
Our wood is dried in the open air for at least 24 months. This natural drying process aims to :

• Reduce the humidity level in the wood, to reach between 14% and 15% humidity
• Extract composites, which would badly affect the wine
• Raise the potential of aromatic components

Natural ageing of staves is a real stage in the maturing process.

Our certification

This label, created by the French Coopers' Federation, is issued by the Technical Wood Centre, ensures that all the stages in the creation of each cask comply with the strictest quality conditions :

• Traceability of batches of staves
• Control of maturing of the stave (humidity level)
• Compliance with technical production standards