Cooperage
Tonnellerie Allary
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At Archiac, in the cognac country, the cooperage Roger Allary opened in 1953 has made casks as small as 1 liter and conical vats as large as 45,000 liters.
The house
Roger Allary opened his cooperage at Archiac, in Charente-Maritime, in 1953. From the 1960s it made casks for cognac, of 350 to 400 liters, and small casks of 1 to 28 liters. His son Jacky took it over when he retired, in 1992, the year the present company was formed. From the 1990s the house also made barrels for wine and large conical vats of 1,000 to 45,000 liters. Since September 9, 2026 Cassandre David Allary and Gauthier David Allary have been co-managers beside Jacky Allary.
Allary holds the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label, which the French state gives to firms keeping a rare craft alive. On June 26, 2025, when the state marked 20 years of the label, it opened its workshop to visitors. From Archiac the house sells in more than 30 countries.
Its barrels are on record at 2 estates of Bordeaux. For the 2022 vintage Château Lafargue, in Pessac-Léognan, fermented its Sauvignon gris for a trial in Allary barrels of 2020. Château Kirwan, the Margaux third growth, counted Allary among its partner cooperages for the 2025 vintage, chosen so that the grain and the toast of its barrels vary. Those are the records of those 2 years.
At a glance
- Kind
- Cooperage
- Based in
- Archiac
- Founded
- 1953, by Roger Allary
- Owner
- The Allary family, since 1953
- Direction
- Jacky Allary, Cassandre David Allary and Gauthier David Allary, co-managers
- Abroad
- More than 30 countries
- In the record
- Lafargue, 2022 vintage; Kirwan, 2025 vintage
Sources
- Books and studies
- Julie Delpech, Vinification des blancs en barrique avec levures indigènes : incidences techniques et organoleptiques, 2023; Chloé Lievin, Dans un contexte de changement climatique favorisant l’élévation du pH des vins, comment les choix de vinification influencent-ils le développement de Brettanomyces bruxellensis, 2026
- Registers
- Ministère de l’Économie, Visite de la Tonnellerie Allary, 20 ans du label EPV, 2025; SIREN 384 027 165 (Annuaire des Entreprises); Company record, SIREN 384 027 165 (Pappers)
- Institutions
- Institut national des savoir-faire, Tonnellerie Allary
- Companies
- Vinitech-Sifel, Allary
Revised October 10, 2026. How I choose sources
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