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Parhelia Cask #11 La Cave Normande 2015 Calvados Domfrontais 50.7% - (700ml)
ParheliaCask11
$160.49 price per bottle
OFFERED on a PRE-SALE BASIS from Saturday October 31, 2026 to Thursday November 5, 2026.  The goods will arrive to the store no later than Friday November 6, 2026. . Importer's Notes:. Calvados Domfrontais is the pear Calvados appellation. Where the Pays d'Auge is apple and pot still, the Domfrontaisâa narrow band of bocage on the Manche/Orne borderâis built on perry pears from tall, old standard trees, and on a single continuous column still rather than a Charentais alembic. The appellation rules require at least 30 % pears in the fermentation; in practice, many of the good houses go well beyond it, because pear is part of what gives Domfrontais its distinguishing characteristics. . After distilling the 2014 harvest, this cask was filled in May 2015 at La Guerrelière and eleven years later the cask goes out whole and unreduced, with a purity and free-sale certificate issued alongside the analysis. It is a Calvados with the volume of a cask-strength spirit and the fruit of an orchard eau-de-vie â the two things a Domfrontais is supposed to have, and rarely gets to show at full strengt. Tasting Notes. On the nose pear leads, as a Domfrontais should: Williams pear and cooked pear, then russet apple, quince paste, hay and orchard leaf. A floral top note and a cider-cellar tang from the ethyl acetate lift the whole rather than dominating it. On the palate, full and faintly oily at cask strength: baked apple, the clean fruit purity of a pear eau-de-vie, then acacia honey, white pepper and a bitter-almond edge. Long and dry on orchard fruit and toasted oak, with a faint smoky trace. . Total Production: 107 bottles. "Please note that the label images have preliminary placeholder ABVs. The producer sought to ensure maximum accuracy and measured the ABV shortly before bottling, which led to different ABV measurements than the Parhelia label proofs used for this presale. "
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| Size: | 700 ml |
| Availability: | In Stock |
| Distributed by: | CLA |
