napa, california
Our Napa workshop laid foundation in 1994, though the tonnellerie has had a presence in California since the 1980s
experience
The toasting floor is looked over by coopers with more than 20 years of experience. They carefully tend the toasting fires—day after day, year after year.
Master Coopers
Master Cooper Douglas Rennie, a fourth-generation cooper, began with Seguin Moreau in 1991. He was joined several years later by Master Cooper Andy Byars.
Our master coopers apprenticed in the art of coopering and traditional skills. They train our coopers and work side by side with them, transmitting generations of expertise by sight, touch and smell.
OUR COOPERS
The coopers’ hands have shaped the oak of decades of vintages here in wine country. While some tools are newer than others, as founder L. Seguin Fil said in 1870, “The mechanical manufacture, by machines equipped with the latest developments with all work carried out mathematically, is the perfect complement to handcraft.”
SEGUIN AND MOREAU COOPERAGES
Seguin and Moreau cooperages were established in Cognac in 1870 and 1838 respectively. In 1958 Remy Martin acquired a majority stake in Moreau cooperage, which then increased its production capacity by incorporating the Seguin workshop. In the early 1970s, Remy Martin moved the cooperage out of the town center, while it continued to serve Cognac and Bordeaux wineries.
SEGUIN MOREAU
Seguin Moreau is still headquartered in Merpins in France, with another Burgundian cooperage site in Chagny. The company encompasses in total three production workshops, two seasoning yards and two integrated stave mills. We are part of the winemaking division of the Oeneo Group.
