Calvados

[Zosherooney]

Whilst in Normandy recently we stayed at a nice B&B in Cherbourg and was talking to the landlady over brekkie and happened to mention that I wanted to buy some Calvados, she offered me some farm produced C that was 40 years old and made by her partners father. We had a very small tipple with our croissants ! It was sublime. We dashed to the cash machine and are now the proud owners of a litre of very smooth but tasty calvados. We have struggled with some of the shop bought ones. Ours is in a Ricard bottle and has been duly labelled to stop accidents ! So glad that there are still some producers of this fine stuff other than the big boys.

[StokeySue]

jealous

Just before the devastating storm of January 1998, that wrecked orchards in Vallee d'Auge, the centre of the Calva production, we had one of those French markets near work
One of the sellers was a fairly young producer of farmer's cider & calvados, a nice chap called Roger, I got talking to him and ended up translating for him, and teaching him a little of how to explain his wonderful products in English

We never had a real French market again, just the touring circus that passes for one, and I have often wondered if Roger's business survived into the 21st century, I do hope so