Claque-Pépin - Pommeau de Normandie (750 mL)
Claque-Pépin - Pommeau de Normandie (750 mL)
Claque-Pepin's Pommeau de Normandie is a mixture of approximately 1/4 Calvados and 3/4 apple juice, blended into barrels and aged for minimum of fourteen months. With an ABV of 17%, it serves as a wonderful apéritif or as an accompaniment to melon or blue cheese. It is also popular with a variety of desserts, including any chocolate or apple-based dishes - and is commonly enjoyed on it's own as dessert.
Tasting Notes: Aromas of sweet apple, apple brandy, dried figs, honeycomb. Sweet with a nice body to it. The alcohol from the brandy cuts through the sweetness and leaves a clean, bitter & warming finish on the palate. Lots of neutral oak/barrel presence. A calvados forward flavor profile to this lovely pommeau de normandie.
About Pommeau: Pommeau is a traditional French apéritif of the Normandy and Brittany regions of France, made by mixing unfermented apple juice with apple brandy (Calvados in the Calvados region and lambig in Brittany). It is overseen and protected by an Appellation d’Origine Controlée as Pommeau de Normandie (and Pommeau de Bretagne in Brittany).
About Claque Pepin's French Cider, Perry, Pommeau, and Calvados: The name Claque-Pépin comes from a type of apple variety, which when ripe, rattles when shaken. The name translates to the seeds (pépin) which rattle (claque). The property is located in the Normandie region, nestled between the Domfrontais and the Pays d’Auge, on a 17th century farm next to the ancient château of Serans, formerly the family estate of the Louvet family.
Claque-Pépin officially began just 15 years ago, however, current owner Benoit Louvet has been immersed in the world of distilling and aging for many years. He began his “apprenticeship” fairly young with his grandfather Vital. After working for a few other Calvados producers as cellar master, he decided to start his own artisanal production and perpetuate the art of making calvados and cider, while respecting the Normand tradition and the environment. They farm 20 hectares of apple orchards.
Appellation: The property and orchards are ideally situated in the Calvados AOC, just in between Pays d’Auge and the Domfrontais, producing cider and Calvados with the round and refined flavors of Calvados of the Pays d’Auge and the spicier notes typical of Calvados of the Domfrontais.
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale: Sweet
- Tannins: Medium
- Acidity: Medium Minus
- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Apple Variety Info Unavailable
- Features: Blend and Barrel Aged
- ABV: 17.0%
- Format: 750 mL Bottle
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