OUR COMMITMENT AND OUR VALUES

“We are committed to providing quality in our products, a constant traceability and
to embracing humanistic values in the service of a responsible artisanal craft.”

 
  • Testing, traceability of the products and transparency
    with our clients are an added value
    guaranteed with the “Nadège Darnajou” stamp.


    For a long time now, we have chosen to provide high-end quality from small-scale production units. This positioning has enabled us to introduce a very complete and innovative means of identification of all the wood and materials which enter into the fabrication of our barrels, which are numbered and categorised with the help of an individual identity card.   
    Complying with the current decreed norms and regularly updated by the French Cooperages Federation, our company integrates all of its process within the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) system, a food safety method which is the international reference. 
    An independent laboratory carries out regular and systematic Haloanisole (TCA, TeCA, PCA, and TBA) and Halophenol (TCP, TeCP, PCP and TBP) analyses on the wood, from its arrival on the site until fabrication. Analyses are also done on the ambient air inside the workshops, on the quality of the previously dechlorinated water to be used for the charring of the barrels and their permeability testing.  
    Our suppliers also provide certificates of compliance to add to the other documents, all of which are permanently available for consultation. 
    This provides an ideal combination of artisanal tradition and the strictest modern health and safety standards. 

  • THE RESPONSIBLE ARTISAN

    Commitment to our clients, promoting life values for sustainability.

    “The Vincent Darnajou cooperage is firmly committed to a policy of social responsibility, constant environmental concern, and a clear, stated ethical commitment to each of our employees and suppliers”, Vincent Darnajou.

    One particular example (among many others) that sums up the company’s adherence to the important issue of sustainability is our acquisition of a suction and recovery system for dust and wood shavings which are subsequently used for the heating of the workshops via an appropriate boiler. Also, the waste oak recovered from the felled trees in the forest is recovered for the charring of the barrels.
    We are convinced that the complete fulfilment of the expectations of our clients is firstly dependent on the men and women of our team, who are the cornerstone on which the company’s performance is built. We are also sure that a “management of human resources” dimension is necessary, even vital, for us to be able to create harmony and a cohesion that are beneficial for all.
    “We want the employees of the Vincent Darnajou to be happy and fulfilled in their daily lives as craftsmen”.

  • THE RESPONSIBLE ARTISAN

    Commitment to our clients, promoting life values for sustainability.

    Headed by Chantal Villotta Germain, a policy of health and quality of life at the workplace, risk prevention and management based on respect for the individual, was developed and is today an integral part of our overall approach as a company. Thanks to our small size, we have been able to extend this to all of our partners, sharing with them the vision of our craft and the aims we have set. In an effort to maintain and enhance our savoir-faire and prepare the company for the future, we have developed an ambitious and socially innovative training programme. In November 2014, we took on a young apprentice who had been specially picked out during a study course to help young people find out and learn about crafts.
    We also developed an internal training course to enable exchanges with other areas of the wood sector. Thanks to this arrangement, we were also able to take on an adult coming from the carpentry and cabinet-making craft.
    All of these actions and the values that they promote play a part in the quality and modernity of our barrels, which our clients all over the world appreciate and recognise.