Calvados Michel Huard 'Le Pertyer' 2011 Caligny, Suisse Normand

750ml bottle

42% abv

Elegant in its maturity with vibrant orchard fruits, summer flowers, delicate spices, and honey with freshness and well-integrated oak.

• Appellation Calvados Contrôlée
• Barrel #68
• Distilled from 100% apple
• Cider is naturally fermented sur lie in fiberglass, stainless steel, and enamel-lined tanks for 8–12 months
• Distilled in 2011 on a traveling, wood-fired copper column still
• Aged in used French oak of varying sizes and proofed slowly over time with low-mineral water from one of the property’s wells

Jean-Francois Guillouet is the 7th generation of his family to produce Calvados on their estate in the French border region of, Suisse-Normand. As grower producers, there are about 30 varieties of apples are grown on the property, predominantly from the sweet and bittersweet categories. The soil is a perfect loamy combination of silt and clay. Distilled from 100% apple Cider is naturally fermented sur lie in neutral tanks for 8–12 months before distillation in a traditional, wood-fired copper column still. 

For seven generations, the Jean-Francois Guillouet-Huard family has produced Calvados Millesime and Pommo, using raw materials from its 15 hectare orchard planted with tall apple trees. The family of Jean-Francois Guillau-Ouar is a hereditary farmer who has lived all his life around the villages of Caligny and Monti sur Noirot in the southwest of the department of Calvados. Despite the fact that the cultivation of orchards for the production of alcoholic beverages is a key focus of the company, the farm is still engaged in animal husbandry. Cattle naturally support natural eco-processes in apple orchards. In the middle of the 20th century, Michel Ouart, grandfather of Jean-Francois Guillaume, began to supply Calvados with his production to Paris. The company's philosophy is to produce high-quality drinks with minimal interference with natural processes, allowing nature to express itself as much as possible.

In 2004, Jean-Francois Guillauet, the founder’s grandson, led the farm. He took up the modernization of production facilities, investing in a new building with an area of 300 square meters. m., in which he will produce the best calvados for many years. Vintage Calvados "Michel Huard" are already presented in the most famous restaurants in Paris and around the world.