1989 was the year the Berlin Wall fell – and that same year, Manoir d'Apreval laid down a calvados that was only judged ready for the bottle eighteen years later.
Expert description
Apreval Calvados 1989 Vintage 18 Years Old is a French Calvados from a single vintage, bottled at 42%.
This calvados comes from the 1989 harvest and spent eighteen years in oak casks at Manoir d'Apreval, a family-run estate on the coast at Pennedepie between Honfleur and Deauville. The estate has been run by three generations of women from the Revillon family since the early 1900s and grows its apples and pears organically. The calvados is double distilled in the traditional Pays d'Auge method, which together with the long ageing gives it a warm, golden colour and a rich aromatic character.
Tasting notes
Nose
Ripe apples, honey and a lightly spiced oak note.
Palate
Round and warm, with apple compote, caramel and soft spice.
Finish
Long, where spice and ripe apple linger together.
Specifications
Name: Apreval Calvados 1989 Vintage
Distillery: Manoir d'Apreval
Region/Country: Pays d'Auge, Normandy, France
Type: French Calvados
Age: 18 years
ABV: 42%
Size: 70 CL
Cask type: Oak casks
Distillation method: Double distilled
Distilled: 1989
Flavour profile
Round · Warm · Spiced · Golden
Investment potential
Medium. A single-vintage calvados from a small, family-run house is scarcer than most blended expressions, though it does not carry the same rarity as the house's older 1967 vintage.
Did you know?
Manoir d'Apreval grows its apples and pears using organic farming – a practice still relatively rare among the traditional calvados houses of Normandy.
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