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Oct 27, 2023 · Calvados Pays d’Auge covers an area just east of Caen, stretching from Deauville on the coast to about 30km south of Lisieux. Producers here may use at most 30% pears and must only use copper pots to distil their spirit.
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 ...
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- The Rather Interesting History of The Comte Louis de Lauriston Cellar
- The Situation Deteriorates
- Speciality of A Small Region
- Taste Test
- Postscript
- Want to visit?
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.
Calvados brandy comes in three different controlled appellations of origin: Calvados Pays d’Auge, Calvados and Calvados Domfrontais, the geographical production areas of which have been strictly delimited by the INAO (French National Institute of Designations of Origin).
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