"Reserve de Semainville 25+ years old"

Calvados aged a minimum of 25+ years from the region's benchmark distillery. An extremely rare & exceptional brandy!

Adrien Camut is largely credited with redefining the image of Calvados in France in the 1960s, using double distillation and a solera-aging method to make the first apple brandy that rivaled top Cognacs and earned placement in Michelin-starred restaurants across the country .

His grandsons Emmanuel, Jean-Gabriel and Jean-Michel continue the tradition today. The Camuts never make single-vintage Calvados; everything is bottled from soleras, perpetual reserves of Calvados where old juice is aged in large foudres and is partially topped up with the new vintage year after year. To top it off, the new Calvados  is proofed down with rainwater before going into the soleras, so there is a lighter alcohol touch here.

The result is a magic combination of pristine, deeply complex fruit in the younger bottlings and more confit, baked fruit, caramel apples, toffee or butterscotch in the older reserves. All have an intense texture & depth that you don’t often find in Calvados, and especially at such a reduced alcohol level.