Adrien Camut Calvados Pays d'Auge 25 Year Reserve de Semainville core-no-restrictions Intoxicating aromatics of ripe stone

Intoxicating aromatics of ripe stone fruit

Contratto is delightful served on the rocks with a splash of soda or used in a variety of cocktails

Here's the trick — it's built largely from declassified Etna Rosso and given long aging in big old casks

This is traditional-method sparkling rosé off limestone soils

It’s organic and unmalted

Adrien Camut Calvados Pays d'Auge 25 Year Reserve de Semainville core-no-restrictions Intoxicating aromatics of ripe stoneThis is the bottle that converts people who think they don't like brandy. The Camut family has been farming apple orchards in Normandy's Pays d'Auge since the 1800s, and the current generation still does it the slow way: heirloom apples from high trunk (hautes tiges) trees, cider fermented in wood for the better part of a year, then double distillation in copper pot stills fired by wood. From there the spirit goes into old oak casks (nothing new,