Calvados Pays d’ Auge Hors d’ age Reflets de France

Made from cider apples from the Pays d'Auge, this Calvados Hors d'Age, Appellation Pays d'Auge Contrôlée, is a blend of Calvados that have aged for a minimum of 8 years in oak barrels from the Busnel distillery, under the attentive care of the Cellar Master. It reveals all the authenticity and finesse of a refined eau de vie, with subtly woody and fruity scents. We advise you to taste it at the end of the meal, at room temperature, to appreciate all the aromas.

They tell us that they need sixteen pounds of apples to make one bottle.

Colour: Deep gold.

Nose: Apple vinegar, apple cake, baked apples, with a little caramel, fudge and cappuccino. Good balance, everything’s in place,

Mouth: Good, solid, easy calvados, starting honeyed and slightly fudgy/caramely, then we have more overripe apples, then just touches of oak spices, cinnamon, a little nutmeg and ginger, and then more cider. Fast, easy, approachable, sympathetic.

Finish: Good length, sweet, round, easy. Caramelised apples.

Comments: t I think it’s a well made calvados.