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Oct 27, 2023 · Calvados Domfrontais lies a small distance southwest of this, centred around the town of Domfront-en-Poiraie. Here the mix must be at least 30% pears, and distillers must use column stills heated by an open fire.
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 ...
Mar 5, 2018 · The pear drop aroma and taste is most noticeable in young calvados. With long barrel ageing it is significantly reduced because the calvados builds a richness which masks the pungency of the Perry pear.
The best calvados brandies for 2022 are: Best overall – Avallen calvados, 40%: £34.99, Virginwines.co.uk. Best silver award winner – Chateau du Breuil calvados pays d’auge 15 ans 41%: £68. ...
- The Rather Interesting History of The Comte Louis de Lauriston Cellar
- The Situation Deteriorates
- Speciality of A Small Region
- Taste Test
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Farmers of the dense countryside around Domfront have for centuries valued the privacy its higgledy-piggledy woods and hedge lined little fields have given them. If these family businesses chose to distil some of the pear and apple cider they produced, as far as they were concerned it was nobody’s business but their own. Unfortunately the taxman di...
In a very short space of time the excise men found themselves trapped up against a wall with a semicircle of irate farmers on tractors and in cars shining their headlights at them. The tax men were heavily outnumbered. The situation was deteriorating rapidly when someone sensibly sent for the secretary of the local farmer’s federation; Comte Louis ...
Pear cider has been made around Domfront since the dawn of time, probably before apple cider, and pear trees can live for 300 years. A local legend says a good pear tree needs ‘a hundred years to grow, one hundred years to produce, one hundred years to die’. France learnt distillation from Arab travelers as far back as the 7th and 8thcenturies. Dis...
Back in the saleroom Didier encouraged us to try a range of exquisite Domfrontais calvados, plain apple calvados (both are made) cider and Pommeau. There are calvados bottles dating back to the first 1962 vintage and to our delight bottles from the years we were born. In our opinion Poiré Domfront has the smoothness and subtle flavour of a very goo...
After our visit we drove a sort distance along from Lauriston’s cellars to Rue des Antiques brocante barn. In exceedingly good spirts it seemed a very good idea to buy a set of eight (very lovely) chairs that we didn’t know we needed. That is the calvados effect. You have been warned. A lot more fascinating Domfrontais calvados facts here on the co...
The comte Louis de Lauriston cellar and tasting room is on rue du Mont Saint Michel, La Canjonnière, 61700 Domfront, France. Opening times; Monday to Friday: 9 am to 12 noon and 2pm to 6pm, Saturday from 9:30 am to 12 noon. For group visits best to call ahead.
Pear Calvados Liqueur. With its golden yellow colour and delicate flavour, this pear liqueur has powerful, silky and strond aromas of fresh williams pear slighty spiced. When you taste it, it’s like eating fresh fruits.
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Calvados also goes well with exciting sweet and sour combinations, those that include apples and pears, of course, but also using peaches, prunes, grapes or apricots. With desserts, the pastry notes in the Calvados are perfect with fruit tarts, tarte tatin, tiramisu and any kind of chocolate-based cake.
