Julien Fremont - Calvados

Style: Spirit

Region: Normandy

Vintage: NV

Grapes: Apples

ABV: 42%

Format: 500ml

About: Julien Frémont’s farm is a traditional half-timbered farmhouse with 40ha of land that’s been in the family since its original purchase in the 1750s. Still dedicated to growing apples – to make cider and calvados – and raising cattle, there are 15ha planted to orchards, including many centennial apple trees that only produce fruit biennially on average. The remaining 25ha is pasture for the 20 (or so) cows that help maintain the orchards – mowing the grass, pruning the trees’ lowest branches, providing natural fertiliser, and eating the fallen apples until it’s time to harvest from October until early December.