Lelouvier, Calvados Fine, NV so102824 test This isn't a wine to

This isn't a wine to crack open the evening it arrives: Castell'in Villa's Riserva is built for 20 or more years of cellaring

The nose is layered and sophisticated

Les Arbres caught it at full maturity

the slower oxygen exchange promises an even longer evolution

Lelouvier, Calvados Fine, NV so102824 test This isn't a wine toNormandy never got the memo about grapes. Calvados is apple brandy: orchard fruit fermented into cider, then distilled and rested in oak, and it is Normandy's answer to every whiskey ever made. 'Fine' is the entry rung of the Calvados ladder, requiring a minimum of two years in cask, which means this is young enough to still taste like fruit but aged enough to have shed its rough edges. Drink it the way the French do at the table, as the trou normand,