Adrien Camut Calvados Pays d'Auge 25 Year Reserve de Semainville spirits-template grated ginger

grated ginger

Made entirely with thyme flowers and leaves gathered from the high elevation of the Piemontese Alps

it offers sophistication now yet will flourish for decades

The entry taste gives an impression of moderate age and medium-level oakiness

Adrien Camut Calvados Pays d'Auge 25 Year Reserve de Semainville spirits-template grated gingerThis is the bottle that converts people who think they don't like brandy. The Camut family has been farming apple orchards in Normandy's Pays d'Auge since the 1800s, and the current generation still does it the slow way: heirloom apples from high trunk (hautes tiges) trees, cider fermented in wood for the better part of a year, then double distillation in copper pot stills fired by wood. From there the spirit goes into old oak casks (nothing new,