Wines
Calvados Roger Groult
Pays d'Auge
Calvados Roger Groult is one of the last remaining traditional, artisan, family-owed Calvados producers. Most Calvados produced today is done so by large corporations or cooperatives, whereas Calvados Roger Groult is still a family business striving to produce premium quality Calvados.
This family estate, the "Clos de la Hurvanière," lies in the south of Pays d’Auge, in the vicinity of Lisieux. The same methods of production have been maintained in this family estate, now in its fifth generation. The apples are selected from the family’s own orchards and those in the immediate vicinity in order to conserve the vintage region. The orchards are planted on a flint clay covered with fine, silty soil, and yield apples which are sweet, bitter-sweet, bitter and slightly acidic. After fermenting and undergoing sedimentation for several months, the cider, which now contains some 5 or 6% by volume of alcohol, is distilled over a wood fire in three small stills to obtain the Calvados Pays d’Auge AOC, guaranteeing both its quality and origin. All products are matured in traditional oak barrels.
Spirits amateurs of the whole World can appreciate those exceptional Calvados that are still produced with old and traditional methods.
