1995 Christian Drouin French Cask Calvados 40% 700ml Spanish Wines

1995 Christian Drouin French Cask Calvados 40% 700ml Spanish WinesA 1995 vintage Calvados Pays d'Auge from Christian Drouin, aged exclusively in French oak. Long maturation produces classic vintage Calvados depth apple still recognisably present after three decades, layered with dried fruit, leather and gentle rancio. Christian Drouin is a fourth generation Calvados Pays d'Auge house at Coudray Rabut in Normandy, founded in 1960. The estate works exclusively with bittersweet apples from Pays d'Auge orchards,

As with any seasonal variation

It is well balanced with a long and dry persistence

with its patient fermentation and its masterful distillation in copper alembics

In the mouth it is smooth and balanced with a strong but never intrusive tannin

toasty depth

savoury and persistent

Aged for about 25 years

This 1996 vintage is best sipped neat

spicy palate yields baked apple and raisin flavours followed by a wave of cinnamon

Vermouth de Forcalquier is a full-flavoured aperitif in a superb vintage-style bottle

with a deep core of fruit

It is then removed for consumption