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This 2008 vintage Calvados from renowned producer Victor Gontier represents excellent value for money. The nose is full of stewed pear with little or no oak influence. The palate has excellent intensity with toffee apple and galangal on the finish.
Country: France
Region: Normandy
Sub Region: Domfrontais
This "8 year old" Calvados has been produced following the strict criteria of the label "Calvados Pays d'Auge", using only Cider apples from Pays d'Auge.
Their apple trees yield about twenty varieties of cider apples : sweet, bitter-sweet,bitter and acidulous. Examples of varieties : Bisquet, Binet Rouge, Noel des Champs, Egyptia, etc.
Calvados are still distilled over a wood fire in three little pot stills to maintain traditional and artisanal methods of production. It is then aged in in oval … more
Country: France
Region: Normandy
Sub Region: Domfrontais
Eric Bordelet approaches Cider-making with the same intensity as a passionate Oenologist brings to Winemaking. Bordelet worked as a Sommelier before leaving in 1992, taking over his families tiny patch of orchards in Charchigné, in the heart of Normandy’s premium Cider producing area.
The fruit is dry-farmed, as Bordelet prefers to work with tiny very flavor-some apples and pears. ”The fruit we work with looks quite different from what you’ll find in the grocery store.” says Eric. “I know what … more
Since the 1800s, the Camut family has grown 115 acres of apple trees in the Pays d'Auge, the finest growing region for Calvados. In Normandy, 800 types of apples are grown; the Camut family grow about 25 of these, all of which are hand-harvested.
While pears are allowed in Calvados (actually mandatory in the Domfrontais region with a minimum of 30%), only apples grown on the Camut property are used in Camut Calvados. Cider is made from these apples and … more
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