{"product_id":"parhelia-cask-11-la-cave-normande-2015-calvados-domfrontais-50-9-700ml","title":"Parhelia Cask #11 La Cave Normande 2015 Calvados Domfrontais 50.9% - (700ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImporter's Notes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalvados Domfrontais is the pear Calvados appellation. Where the Pays d'Auge is apple and pot still, the Domfrontais—a narrow band of bocage on the Manche\/Orne border—is built on perry pears from tall, old standard trees, and on a single continuous column still rather than a Charentais alembic. The appellation rules require at least 30 % pears in the fermentation; in practice, many of the good houses go well beyond it, because pear is part of what gives Domfrontais its distinguishing characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter distilling the 2014 harvest, this cask was filled in May 2015 at La Guerrelière and eleven years later the cask goes out whole and unreduced, with a purity and free-sale certificate issued alongside the analysis. It is a Calvados with the volume of a cask-strength spirit and the fruit of an orchard eau-de-vie — the two things a Domfrontais is supposed to have, and rarely gets to show at full strengt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the nose pear leads, as a Domfrontais should: Williams pear and cooked pear, then russet apple, quince paste, hay and orchard leaf. A floral top note and a cider-cellar tang from the ethyl acetate lift the whole rather than dominating it. On the palate, full and faintly oily at cask strength: baked apple, the clean fruit purity of a pear eau-de-vie, then acacia honey, white pepper and a bitter-almond edge. Long and dry on orchard fruit and toasted oak, with a faint smoky trace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTotal Production: 107 bottles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raising Glasses","offers":[{"title":"700ml","offer_id":50539711430819,"sku":"ParheliaCask11","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/4104\/0803\/files\/ParhleiaCask11.jpg?v=1793387075","url":"https:\/\/cellar.com\/products\/parhelia-cask-11-la-cave-normande-2015-calvados-domfrontais-50-9-700ml","provider":"Cellar.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}