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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.
Mix water and sugar with star anise, cinnamon and cardamom in a saucepan. Peel the pears. Add Calvados to the syrup. Poach the pears in the syrup for 40 minutes. Place a sheet of parchment paper of the same diameter on the pan. Make a soft butter.
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 ...
- 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.
Aug 23, 2022 · Make a calvados and perry syrup, then poach pears in it and serve with sweet-savory sesame brittle and lashings of silk cardamom-infused custard for a stylish autumnal pud.
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This local eau de vie called Calvados or 'Calva' by Frenchmen is obtained when distilling cider from local apples or pears. The fermentation process taks at least one month and produces an eau de vie that is between 40 and 45 % proof.
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Sep 21, 2023 · Normandy, in northern France, is home to nearly 20,000 acres of apple orchards that are transformed into cider and a historic brandy called Calvados. Here is everything you need to know about this famous apple brandy.
