Chateau Du Breuil Calvados Xo 20 Year 750ml

1598398* 

$194.99 $184.29 price per bottle

The large tannin content is this exquisite blend of Calvados aged 20 to 25 years, imparts a beautiful amber hue. The Reserve des Seigneurs is a wonderful example of a full-bodied XO Calvados with its well-balanced, signature bouquet. Best savored slowly at room temperature. Review Situated between Lisieux and Deauville, Chateau du Breuil is perhaps the most beautiful estate in Normandy. The 17th century half-timbered chateau is a historic landmark, with a lovely park open to the public. The distillery came much later, in 1954, and is only focused on Pays d’Auge, where it is the second-largest producer. Chateau du Breuil uses more than 120 varieties of apples in its blends, and has a huge range of bottlings, including its classic and accessible 15-year-old. - From Calvados: The Apple Of A Brandy Drinker’s Eye (Nov 2018) by Jason Wilson
Producer Normandy! A land of picturesque half-timbered houses, lush green pastures and apples orchards. A land of rich culinary tradition based on its fine local products: butter, cream, world famous cheeses and of course…apples ! Classified as a historic monument, the Chateau du Breuil proudly stands amoung its park with centenarial trees. Built in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Chateau was the dwelling of the great families, as the Bouquetot, the Montgomery, the Bence… Today, the “Chateau du Breuil” is also one of most prestigious Calvados distilleries (created in 1954). It offers to its visitors guided tours as well as tastings of very old Calvados, every day of the year. The distillation process takes place between the beginning of winter and June 30th of the following year. To make one liter of Calvados 100% pure alcohol, about 27 kg apples or 20 liters of 5% volume cider are necessary. Unlike Calvados “AOC”, Calvados with the AOC “Pays d’Auge” requires cider apples produced in Pays d’Auge area and a double distillation. It makes a finer Calvados, due to the quality of apples produced by the local soil, and to the elimination of the roughiest parts of the alcohol during the distillations. The Chateau du Breuil makes AOC Pays d’Auge Calvados only. * Les chais In the cellars, Calvados ages only in oak casks. The Chateau du Breuil company chooses its barrels carefully, because the kind, size and age play a very important part in the quality of ageing. The subtle exchanges between wood, air and alcohol give Calvados its smooth flavour and bouquet. Each Calvados is different, each cellar master has his own jealously guarded secret. The delicate and perfect tastes of our Calvados depend less on their old age than on the success of its blending, created by Chateau du Breuil’s cellar master.