Michel Huard-Guillouet Vintage Calvados, Single Barrel #159, France (2013) Fleury no sulfur addition

no sulfur addition

it’s because it is

bottled near the end of the ambient yeast fermentation (ancestral method)

17% Pinot Blanc

Michel Huard-Guillouet Vintage Calvados, Single Barrel #159, France (2013) Fleury no sulfur additionThis is a vintage, single cask Calvados drawn from Barrel #159, distilled from heirloom Norman apples that were pressed in the autumn, allowed a long, cool cider fermentation over winter, then distilled in copper to preserve fruit purity and spice. It matured a decade plus in well seasoned French oak in Huards cool, humid chai and was bottled from a single barrel with minimal reduction, without coloring or chill filtration. The profile is classic and