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Liquor · Brandy/Cognac/Armagnac

Calvados Adrien Camut 6 Year 750

Pay online, pick up at the shop, 2690 Broadway. Ready in about 2 hours during pickup hours. Orders placed after 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Sunday) are ready the next day from 10:30 AM (11:30 AM Sunday).

The tasting card

Category

Calvados Pays d'Auge

Producer

Adrien Camut

Distillery

Domaine de Semainville, La Lande-Saint-Léger

Region

Pays d'Auge, Normandy, France

Age

6 years

Proof

86 proof

Alcohol

43%

Cask

Old oak barrels, mostly Limousin and about 50 years old on average, then large oak vats from the third year; no new wood

Mash bill

Cider from about 25 apple varieties grown on the family's own orchards

How it is made

Apples are picked by hand from October to mid-December. The cider sits in oak barrels for roughly 10 to 11 months before it is double distilled each September on two wood-fired stills.

Tasting note

papaya, milk chocolate, vanilla wafer, apple soda, mushroom, plum, dried apricots, butterscotch

About this bottle

Apple growing in the Camut family goes back to the 1800s, and today they tend 46.5 hectares of Pays d'Auge orchards at their Domaine de Semainville. Only fruit from their own trees is used, distilled on a pair of wood-fired stills, one of them 75 years old. Ageing happens in long-used barrels and big casks, with no new oak at all.