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- 30&40 Extra Old 10 Year Old Calvados. Independent bottler 30&40 has a single cask range and a range of blends. This is a blend of four Calvadoses from three producers, aged between 10 and 28 years.
- Avallen Calvados. This is a young Calvados and very approachable. You’ll find notes of crisp, light apples overlaid with floral notes. It’s great for mixing into a cocktail or spritz.
- Christian Drouin Caroni Angels Calvados. This Calvados is matured in oak for 17 years before soaking in former Caroni rum casks for a further eight months.
- Didier Lemorton 30 Year Old Domfrontais Calvados. Domfrontais Calvados is harder to find in the UK, but thankfully this is a fine example and good value too.
Sep 21, 2023 · Calvados with the Pays d’Auge label must undergo double distillation in a copper pot still, which creates a rich profile and mouthfeel. Although they can be distilled with a maximum of 30% perry (made from pears), they generally will include a much smaller percentage and often none at all.
- Audrey Morgan
Jan 26, 2024 · Calvados is a type of French brandy or eau de vie made mainly from apples, although some pears can also be used. The fruits differ from the ones we eat, and the apples come in four varieties: Sweet (fragrant & sweet, contributes to a higher ABV), Bittersweet (both sweet & tannic, dominant kind), Bitter (more tannins, adds body) and Acidic (adds ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Calvados is a distilled apple cider that can be served as a digestif at the end of a meal, or used in cocktails. Learn about Calvados, the famous apple brandy from Normandy, in Northern...
- Courtney Iseman
It’s good in cocktails and makes an excellent mulled cider mixed with apple juice, cider, cinnamon, cloves and brown sugar. Calvados is an apple brandy made in Normandy, northern France.
As you will learn in this guide, calvados is a brandy made by distilling apples that have been fermented into dry cider. However, you’ll soon realise that it can also be made from pears in certain appellations! As the Calvados region has particular poor soil that’s strong in chalk and marl, it produces small apples.
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Nov 3, 2023 · On the contrary, Calvados is not distilled from wine grapes but begins as a cider. Only a small percentage of perry pears is allowed, although the base cider is primarily made from apples.