Domaine du Coquerel VS Les Grands Calvados NV

Domaine Coquerel is a family estate in La Manche, Normandy, founded by René Gilbert in 1937. Over the years the family has built up extensive orchards, promoting sustainable farming, encouraging bees for pollination with cows and sheep grazing through the spring and summer months to crop the grass and enrich the soil. Their philosophy is that ‘a great Calvados is above all a great cider’, and to this end grow over 40 varieties of apples, with a few pears, to obtain the perfect balance of sweetness, sharpness, bittersweet and freshness. Distillation takes place in their copper stills with ageing of the spirit in barrel in a one of their nine cellars. Aged for over two years in French oak casks, the VS is sweetly fruity with notes of vanilla.