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| VIEUX CALVADOS AC, France |
| Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
G.E. MASSENEZ |
| Medium gold yellow colour. Spicy, gently sweet, honeyed, caramel-tinged, apple-pear puree nose. Fairly dry, medium bodied, quite well structured, faintly honeyed, spicy, intense, ripe apple puree flavours with a lingering, very faintly peppery finish. It comes with what appears to be a sizable apple in the bottle. Empty the liquid contents and the apple suddenly seems to shrink (having lost the magnification of the liquid surrounding it). In fact, the apple only displaces about 75 ml or about 10% pushing the price up to $3.65 per ounce. Last appeared in Vintages (**+) on September 28, 2013 at $64.95 and was an Explorer Selection. While this is very good, the recommended very tasty Christian Drouin Coeur de Lion Sélection Calvados (Vintages cspc 254128) goes for $40.95 or half the price at only $1.73 per oz. |
CSPC |
271726 |
| Type |
Spirit - Brandy |
| Agent |
Tan Sel |
| Country |
France |
| Region |
 |
| Rating |
***(90 points)
Spicy, Intense, Baked Apple |
| LCBO Note |
Status |
A Vintage Assessments Explorer's Selection! |
| TASTING NOTE: This "imprisoned" apple is part of the prestigious Signature range. The bottle is attached to the apple tree while in flower so the fruit develops inside the bottle. When it ripens, the fruit and the bottle are carefully detached. Then the bottles are cleaned and filled with Calvados. Years of maceration gently blend the flavours of the apple and the spirit. The result is an aroma that's full of apple cider and baked apple notes which carry through intensely on the palate. Rounded, smooth with deep apple flavours, this is great before dinner on the rocks, after dinner at room temperature or in-between courses as the Normans do. Heck anytime anyway would do for me. Score - 95 (Margaret Swaine, winealign.com, May 7, 2014) |
Price |
$ 72.95 |
| Bottle Size |
750 mL |
| Tasting Date |
vintages release - March 21, 2015 |
| Cases bought |
142 (6 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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