Christian Drouin Le Gin 70cl 42°
Producer of Calvados, the Drouin family extends the art of blending brandy to gin to create this artisanal gin made from cider brandy made using more than 30 varieties of cider apples.
This gin with a soft profile comes from a distillation in small stills of Normandy ciders. There are also seven separately distilled herbs: ginger, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, almond, rose and lemon.
The history of the Drouin house begins in 1960 near Honfleur in Normandy. The founder, Christian Drouin, distils the cider produced using the farm's apple trees to make old Calvados his specialty.
Aged in sherry, Port or Calvados barrels, the Christian Drouin cuvées have been growing in popularity since the 1970s and reach the greatest tables around the world.
For their production, around thirty varieties of cider apples are ripened in the estate's orchard.
The Drouin family, which has seen 3 generations succeed one another, has expanded its range to today offer pommels, gins and perries in addition to Calvados and ciders.