APPELLATION Calvados AOC Pays d’Auge contrôlée

ELEVAGE Aged for 6 years in oak barrels with a finish in Sherry Oloroso barrels for the last 6 months

TASTING
This unique Calvados has been carefully aged in oak barrels before being finished in Oloroso Sherry casks, a rich and generous wine with aromas of nuts, dried fruit and sweet spices. This final ageing process gives this Calvados an exceptional aromatic complexity, blending traditional notes of apple and pear with nuances of raisins, caramel and vanilla.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS
At the end of the meal, this Calvados is really appreciated for its subtle aromatic taste and its length.

Distillation:

The Calvados AOC Pays d’Auge is obtained through a process of double distillation of cider in a traditional copper still called “alambic à repasse” (which translates as a “double distillation still”). First, the juice obtained by pressing the apples is completely fermented (12 months) in one-hundred-year-old oak barrels.

Our still is heated by an innovative and unique process in Normandy: woodchips. Woodchips produced on the Estate serves as ecological combustible.

The cider is heated once for the first distillation. These cooled and condensed alcohol vapors are between 30 and 35% proof.

The second heater is to distill the “petites eaux”. Only the heart of the distillation is retained. Calvados obtained is 70% proof.

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