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Bottle: $79.94
6 bottles: $78.34
This eight-year-old Calvados « Finition en Fûts de Porto » (Porto cask finish) stayed several months in small...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $35.94
12 bottles: $35.22
An average of seven years old, Manoir de Montreuil Réserve includes some brandies up to 20 years old in the blend....
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The apples are a mixture of the four categories: sweet, bittersweet, acidic and bitter composed of numerous include...
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750ml
Bottle: $33.63 $35.40
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A blend of young Calvados, distilled with extreme care in a copper column still. Aged more than 2 years in oak casks....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $44.95 $48.00
6 bottles: $44.05
A blend of young Calvados, distilled with extreme care in a copper column still. Aged more than 3 years in oak casks....
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $49.89 $52.80
12 bottles: $48.89
Calvados made from a majority of pears can have a wild, volatile edge, that I find here in this six-year-old bottling...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $40.94 $43.20
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This three-year-old bottling from AOC Domfrontais is made from 70% pears and hearkens back to old-school Calvados in...
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Spirits
750ml
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It is distinguished by intense aromas of fresh apples. Its color is clear with pale yellow undertones. It is ideal to...
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750ml
Bottle: $65.40 $69.60
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This Hors d'Age release comes from a careful blend of barrels from three vintages. It shows deep green apple, vanilla...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $36.79
6 bottles: $33.31
Baked, ripe, and candied apple leap from the glass. The amber color suggests the mouthfeel - voluptuous, rounded and...
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750ml
Bottle: $72.99
6 bottles: $71.53
Deep aromas of red apples and dark caramel. Clean and pure flavors of cinnamon, caramel custard, and baked apples all...
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Spirits
500ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $47.23

Calvados Grechetto Melon de Bourgogne NV

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.