CaskCartel.com® Boulard Calvados XO Auguste Brandy – 2198029828207

Description

Brandy: Boulard Calvados XO Auguste

This XO Calvados from Boulard is named in honour of the estate’s founder, Pierre Auguste, who created the house in 1825. This is an aromatic and elegant Calvados.

Size: 750mL

Proof: 80 (40% ABV)

Origin: France

Distillery: Calvados Boulard Distillery

A blend of 6 to 15 years and named in homage to Pierre Auguste. Fresh apple with flavours of sweet fudge on the nose. Plenty of fruits on the palate, with a sharp citrus cutting through drawing out a long, bitter finish.

Boulard Calvados XO Auguste Brandy Tasting Notes

Nose: Baked apples, apple pie and cinnamon with honey suckle, vanilla and honey roasted almonds.

Palate: Elegant and toasty with delicate spice. Baked apple, caramel (toffee apple) and burnt orange zest oils with cinnamon spice.

Finish: Concentrated baked apple and maraschino cherry with delicate cinnamon spice.

Distillery Information:

The family-run Calvados Boulard distillery at Coquainvilliers, in the rural heart of the département, may currently export 85 per cent of the world’s output, but it couldn’t feel less like mass-production. It’s sited on a secluded lane in a timber-framed house with an adjacent red-brick, slate-roofed barn which houses the distillery.