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Calvados is distilled from cider made from specially grown and selected apples, from over 200 named varieties.
Sep 21, 2023 · How Is Calvados Made? Calvados production begins with apples and pears, but these fruits are smaller and more tannic than the ones you might pick up at the supermarket.
- Audrey Morgan
Sep 7, 2010 · Most of the flavours in the calvados comes from the skins of the apples rather than the pulp. The equipment required for making the cider comprises of a grater tank, a press and a vat called a “belleron”.
- 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.
Apr 26, 2024 · Calvados is made mostly from apples, with an allowance for a small amount of perry pears, a term used for small, tannin-packed pear varieties used to make cider. All fruit used also must be...
- Courtney Iseman
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!
Jun 6, 2023 · Calvados is an apple brandy with Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) status. It can only be produced in Normandy, much like Cognac is a specific brandy that can only be distilled from white wine made within a particular region from certain grapes.