calvados

The calvados beverage is not only made in the Calvados departement.

Yes, I've made it with Calvados and also with French pear brandy, which was pretty good, but Calvados and Applejack aren't exactly the same.

The French version of the Wikipedia article [1] actually lists calvados [2] instead of applejack.

I can't see how it's any more of an acquired taste than something like single malt or calvados.

I wouldn't be suprised if some people in rural France refused to let you have the Calvados at all.

I've never seen apfelkorn for sale in the UK, and Calvados is only available from specialist merchants.

I'll pour myself a generous helping of calvados and reread a few of the albums tonight.

But it's actually pretty good: applejack pretty much died out in the US with the prohibition and cheaper liquors, but if you can find cider or calvados it's worth a shot.

I said the following in context of using credit cards: > Buying a bottle of Calvados in some remote area?

> Calvados As in, where the brandy comes from?

There are 3 different appelations: - regular calvados made from cider from different parts of Normandy - calvados Pays d'Auge which must be made from cider of that eponymous Pays d'Auge area (which is within the Calvados departement) - calvados du Domfrontais which is made from cider of the Domfront area in the Orne departement.

I know it can be an issue if you distill cider into apple brandy (calvados) - but that's illegal in the UK anyway without a license, so has never been an issue.

> Denis Auribault noted: "In 1890, an asbestos spinning and weaving factory was established near Condé-sur-Noireau (Calvados).

However I could expand "brandy" to "brandy OR cognac OR calvados", just before I run the query.

Wishlist: -A way to make a search for "brandy" return anything containing "cognac" or "calvados," but not vice versa.

But the notion of terroir enters there because each region will add its own twist; like the cognac region often making "terrines au cognac", or normandy "terrines au calvados".

I can't speak to the grocery stores, but I did briefly work on an apple farm in Calvados.

I didn't know it was a kind of brandy (Calvados is basically brandy).

Calvados; or fortified cider, such as apfelkorn.