Description

Apreval Pommeau de Normandie

Manoir d’Apreval, a producer near Honfleur, France, is bottling a blend of one-third Calvados and two-thirds apple juice that has been aged in oak for five years. The result is a dark amber drink with a rich burnt-caramel-apple flavor. It is relatively low in alcohol (16.5 percent) and is best served chilled as an aperitif or dessert wine.

Manoir d’Apreval is a family run domain located at the edge of Honfleur, on the banks of the Seine estuary, within the Pays d’Auge area but also in the heart of the C√¥te de Gr√¢ce, that of Eug√®ne Boudin, Claude Monet and Erik Satie.

Victor Révillon came to settle here at the beginning of the 20th Century and developed on the 25 hectares around the Apreval Manor, with the help of a farmer, a traditional Normandy multi-production farm.

At the end of the century, Flavie R√©villon, Victor’s granddaughter and owner of the domain, decided with her daughter Agathe Letellier to specialise in refining the cider and Calvados production, by focusing on the apple production in a very specific way. In 1998, this process began with the planting of 1800 high-branch apple trees divided into 17 different varieties.

The choice of the varieties was made after a study of the nature of our soils and a thorough reflection on the specificities of cider apples. As a consequence, the 17 varieties that were chosen were carefully selected on the basis of their rich tannin content, their sugar content, harvest period, natural resistance, their Pays d’Auge typicity and their taste category.