Name: La Maison Ferré - Pommeau de Normandie d'Oscar
Brand: La Maison Ferré - Cidrerie du Perche
Price: 36.0 USD
Availability: InStock

750 mL bottle of la maison Ferré le pommeau d'Oscar

La Maison Ferré - Pommeau de Normandie d'Oscar

d'Oscar is a Pommeau de Normandie made by La Maison Ferre - a traditional cider maker from the Perche region of Normandy, France.

Gregoire Ferré’s Pommeau is produced by adding a one-year-old Calvados (apple brandy) to some recently harvested and unfermented apple juice. The resulting is a 17% ABV blend. Put into barrels and matured for 4 years before bottling - nearly three times the appellation mandate.

Tasting Notes: Best enjoyed a couple ounces at a time. In the glass, this pommea has a gorgeous, dark color courtesy of the prolonged barrel aging, which also has a lovely impact on it's flavor. Soft aromatics of fresh apple and oak. It's sweet but the wood aging and alcohol content cut through the sweetness nicely. Exceptionally balanced rich bittersweet apple, with supporting tannic qualities from the apples and from the barrel. Soft caramel notes, vanilla bean, and oak. No alcohol burn at all, though the brandy does cut through the sweetness of the juice very nicely. Highly enjoyable.

About Pommeau: Pommeau is an apéritif made by blending unfermented apple juice with apple brandy. The mixture is then aged in oak barrels, typically for at least 1 years (and often longer). The high percentage of alcohol from the apple brandy prevents the fresh juice from fermenting, and thus the beverage retains a considerable level of sweetness. The prolonged aging results in a rich melding of complex flavors from the cider juice blend, warmth from the brandy, and complexities from the barrel.

Pommeau is intense yet smooth, and delicious to the point of divine. Serving Pommeau: Pommeau typically has an alcohol by volume in the 16-18% range, and is best enjoyed an ounce or two at a time at cellar temperatures. Stored at cellar temperatures or refrigerated, even an open bottle of Pommeau will age well and can be enjoyed slowly over time. Traditional French Cider, Pommeau de Normandie, and Pommeau de Bretagne: Traditionally, Pommeau was first made throughout Northwestern France, primarily in Normandy and Brittany. France has one of the oldest histories of cider making in the world. The French bittersweet apple varieties commonly used in French cider, with their high tannins and low acidity, make for an exquisite juice for use in Pommeau. In France, agricultural products are labeled with an A.O.C. (appellation d'origine contrôlée), which serves as a formal designation that a product meets the geographic requirements (terroir) and the traditional farming or production practices. This will be found on many traditional French Pommeau labels and descriptions as either A.O.C. Pommeau de Normandie (Normandy), or Pommeau de Bretagne (Brittany). Notably, Calvados is apple brandy made in Normandy and carries a similar A.O.C. Many descriptions of Pommeau will reference Calvados in place of apple brandy, which is most appropriate for any description of traditional Pommeau. Similarly Lambig, which is the apple brandy equivalent in France's Brittany region.

La Maison Ferré - Pommeau de Normandie d'Oscar

About La Maison Ferré: Grégoire Ferré, passionate about cider processing since his youth, first worked with his parents, dairy farmers in Mauves-sur-Huisne in the Perche region, who diversified in 1980 by planting the first cider apple orchards. At the end of the 2000s, barely thirty years old, Grégoire Ferré decided to give full growth to the Perche cider business and founded the brand La Maison Ferré. Today, the farm is organic and includes 38 hectares of high-stem and low-stem orchards. More than 35 varieties of cider apples are grown there, with Grégoire seeking out old varieties from Perche and Normandy. Grégoire produces all his ciders and spirits according to the rules of the art. The cider house offers a range of products including ciders, juices, and spirits (calvados & pommeau), all produced using organic farming methods. In 2020, the AOC label was obtained for the Cidres du Perche. This is a national, and soon international, recognition of local expertise! A guarantee of quality, this Cidre du Perche AOC joins those already historically obtained for Pommeau and Calvados.

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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