La Pomme Prisonnière Calvados Pays d’Auge de Christian Drouin

In Normandy, the passion shared by the last three generations of the Drouin family has been makin calvados. Curiosity, a sense of history and the value of meticulous craftmanship have enabled Christian Drouin Calvados to win more than 200 gold medals in spirits competitions.

Every year in the spring the Alleaumes, apple-growers, hang between 10,000 and 20,000 carafes in the trees of their orchards near Gonnevillesur-Honfleur. Four or five months later the carafes containing ripe apples are taken down, washed, and filled with calvados by the Drouin family. The flavors of fruit mingle with those of the spirit to produce the most fruity of all Calvados.

This Calvados differs from its sisters in flavor thanks to the sugar and the fruity aromas that the apple contribute through its life-long maceration directly in the bottle. It is therefore especially fruity and sweet and is well-suited above all else as a digestif, served either lightly chilled or at room temperature.