Calvados VSOP Pays d`Auge Christian de Drouin

Calvados VSOP Pays d`Auge Christian de Drouin

Calvados VSOP Pays d`Auge from Christian de Drouin makes his Calvados from apples that ferment anywhere from five weeks to five months and turn into fantastic cider. It can then be distilled and become calvados. Typically, you will use both young and old in the blend, as the old calvados typically have more acid. The Calvados is aged in casks and changes its character. The taste goes from fresh apples to ripe apples, to apple jam to baked apples, depending on the length of barrel ageing.

Scent: The delicious amber color gives an enticing aroma of ripe apples and the French tarte tatin.
Taste: Nicely crisp and fruity on the tongue in a nice balance and with a long persistent taste.

Green development:

Christian Drouin is a producer who leaves a positive mark on nature. With the many apple trees and more than 35 different apple varieties, Christian Drouin absorbs 600 tons of CO2 per day. On the other hand, the production "costs" only 200 tonnes - per year. Here, cows roam between the trees, and they are smart enough to know that if they shake the trees, apples will fall. The good thing, on the other hand, is that it is the sick and bad apples that fall down and become food for the cows. In other words, the cows contribute to the apples used in production being healthy, healthy and tasty. At the same time, the cows also eat the grass between the trees, thus making mowing redundant. The apple varieties are primarily local, Norman apple varieties with some tannins. At the same time, Christian Drouin is nothing less than the world's most winning spirits producer across all categories.

Christian Drouin:

The Calvados house was founded immediately after the Second World War by Christian Drouin, who wanted to produce the world's best calvados. This led him in the first instance to seek out the area's smaller winegrowers to buy up their stocks of Calvados. It laid the foundation for the house's exceptional collection of vintage calvados. In 1960, Christian Drouin then decided to take the plunge and produce his own calvados. However, it took 19 years before he felt that the collection of old eau de vies combined with his own production was large enough. That he could bottle the first calvados under the house's own name. Since then, Christian Drouin has had tremendous success. Can today boast of having received more awards and prizes for the product range than all other calvados producers combined! In addition to the famous vintage calvados that date back to 1939, the house also produces a number of fantastic blends, pommeaus and ciders.