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VIEUX CALVADOS AC
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 finish. This new shipment comes with NO APPLE and has 40% alcohol. Last appeared in Vintages (***) on March 21, 2015 (WITH THE APPLE) at $72.95 and was an Explorer Selection. CSPC 271726
Type Spirit - Brandy
Agent Uni Vin
Country France
Region
Rating ***(90 points)
Spicy, Intense, Baked Apple
LCBO Note Status Recommended by Vintage Assessments!
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 $ 52.95
Bottle Size 700 mL
Tasting Date vintages release - October 13, 2018
Cases bought 107 (6 bottles per case)

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