Eric Bordelet Mistelle de Pommes Pommeau de Normandie 2011 50cl

Eric Bordelet Pommeau 2011

Normandy’s Classic Aperitif – Apple Must Meets Calvados

Eric Bordelet is widely regarded as the reference producer of French cider and perry. A former head sommelier at Alain Passard’s L’Arpège in Paris, he returned in 1992 to his family estate, Château de Hauteville in Charchigné, where Mayenne meets Normandy’s Domfrontais. His orchards – around 30 apple and 20 pear varieties, many from very old trees on granite and schist – are farmed biodynamically, picked by hand and fermented slowly with natural yeasts. The result: ciders and perries with the depth and finesse of fine wine.

Pommeau is a mistelle de pommes: fresh, unfermented juice from the estate’s cider apples is blended with apple eau-de-vie (Calvados), which stops fermentation and preserves the fruit’s natural sweetness. The blend is then aged in oak. Bottled from the 2011 harvest, this is a long-aged, unusually complex example.

🍎 Tasting Notes

Amber-mahogany. Baked and caramelised apple, dried fig, raisin and toffee, with oak spice, walnut and a warming hint of Calvados. Sweet and round but balanced by the apples’ acidity, with a long, nutty finish.

🍽️ Food Pairing

Chilled as an aperitif, with foie gras or duck pâté, blue cheeses, melon, tarte Tatin and other apple or caramel desserts.

📋 Details

• Producer: Eric Bordelet, Charchigné, Normandy, France
• Made from: Cider-apple must and apple eau-de-vie, oak-aged
• Vintage: 2011
• Alcohol: 17.4 %
• Bottle: 50 cl
• Serve at: 8–10 °C