750ML La Maison Ferré Pommeau de Normandie d’Oscar

d'Oscar is a Pommeau de Normandie made by La Maison Ferre - a traditional cider maker from the Perche region of Normandy, France. 

Gregoire Ferré’s Pommeau is produced by adding a one-year-old Calvados (apple  brandy) to some recently harvested and unfermented apple juice. The resulting is a 17% ABV blend. Put into barrels and matured for 4 years before bottling - nearly three times the appellation mandate.

Tasting Notes: Best enjoyed a couple ounces at a time. In the glass, this pommeau has a gorgeous, dark color courtesy of the prolonged barrel aging, which also has a lovely impact on it's flavor. Soft aromatics of fresh apple and oak. It's sweet but the wood aging and alcohol content cut through the sweetness nicely. Exceptionally balanced rich bittersweet apple, with supporting tannic qualities from the apples and from the barrel. Soft caramel notes, vanilla bean, and oak. No alcohol burn at all, though the brandy does cut through the sweetness of the juice very nicely. Highly enjoyable. 

Grégoire Ferré, passionate about cider processing since his youth, first worked with his parents, dairy farmers in Mauves-sur-Huisne in the Perche region, who diversified in 1980 by planting the first cider apple orchards.At the end of the 2000s, barely thirty years old, Grégoire Ferré decided to give full growth to the Perche cider business and founded the brand La Maison Ferré.Today, the farm is organic and includes 38 hectares of high-stem and low-stem orchards. More than 35 varieties of cider apples are grown there, with Grégoire seeking out old varieties from Perche and Normandy.Grégoire produces all his ciders and spirits according to the rules of the art.The cider house offers a range of products including ciders, juices, and spirits (calvados & pommeau), all produced using organic farming methods.In 2020, the AOC label was obtained for the Cidres du Perche. This is a national, and soon international, recognition of local expertise! A guarantee of quality, this Cidre du Perche AOC joins those already historically obtained for Pommeau and Calvados.