Adrien Camut Calvados Pays d'Auge 25 Year Reserve de Semainville spirits-template they are making some of

they are making some of the most interesting small batch whiskey coming out of Kentucky

chocolate and baked agave

and there is a broad consensus that nobody there does it better

buttery on the palate with a tense minerality

Adrien Camut Calvados Pays d'Auge 25 Year Reserve de Semainville spirits-template they are making some ofThis is the bottle that converts people who think they don't like brandy. The Camut family has been farming apple orchards in Normandy's Pays d'Auge since the 1800s, and the current generation still does it the slow way: heirloom apples from high trunk (hautes tiges) trees, cider fermented in wood for the better part of a year, then double distillation in copper pot stills fired by wood. From there the spirit goes into old oak casks (nothing new,