Christian Drouin - Calvados Pays d'Auge 70 cl

Maison Christian Drouin is one of the flagships of Calvados production, and in particular of Calvados Pays d'Auge. Above all, it is a family story. From its beginnings in the 1960s, Christian Drouin senior made a specialty of the rarest calvados, meaning the oldest. Today the house offers the widest range of vintages in the trade, Made from a double distillation, this 100 % apple Pays d'Auge calvados is aged for a minimum of 5 years in recent casks, then 4 to 5 additional years in old casks. Benefiting from a wide choice of containers (cider, calvados, port and sherry casks...), the VSOP blend offers an incomparable palette and aromatic richness. It opens with notes of ripe apples mingled with sweet spices, vanilla and cinnamon. The palate is supple, harmonious and entirely round. - Origin: France - Nose: seductive, imbued with freshness. Precise, with notes of sweet cider, baked apple and gingerbread. It opens up to more vegetal and floral notes. It becomes increasingly fruity, with citrus and prune. Evokes an almond liqueur. Beeswax. - Palate: ample and without aggressiveness. The more present oak structures and channels the fruity notes of the nose. Presence of sweet spices in the mid-palate. Fine balance. - Finish: harmonious, without the slightest hint of bitterness or astringency. It lingers on the fruit, the apple. Medicinal hint, clove and arnica.