Not Your Average Glass Of… Boulard Calvados
Tasting spirits can sometimes be compared to that same feeling of opening your final gift Christmas morning as a child. You really want to see what’s in the box, but you know this is it for a while. I received this bottle of Boulard 1985 Calvados as a gift from a good friend. It’s been sitting on my tasting shelf (Don’t give me that look. Doesn’t everyone have one of those?) for the past few months. The more and more I looked at it, the more and more I wanted to open it. What stopped me well, when I first received it , my friend mentioned that there were only about one hundred and forty bottles in the United States and only about a hundred or so more floating around the rest of the world. As a product that’s been aged for twenty-five years, I was really looking forward to trying it, but I also didn’t really want to open it and would have preferred to save it for a special occasion. Funny enough, this one bottle gave birth to this entire article on unique and rare spirits.
After further investigation, I’ve discovered the following on this particular bottling of Boulard Calvados-
It’s been aged in French Limousin casks. It’s also comprised of over 120 varieties of apples.
It has a nose of elegant aromas that conjure what might be the end result of a barrel of fine bourbon and a barrel of apples had a kindred love affair.
So what exactly does a twenty five year old calvados taste like?
Starts off with the taste of sweet vanilla followed up by, sweet baked peaches, the expected notes of baked apples, though the taste of and unexpectedly the feel of crisp and crunchy apples hit the palate. Occasional hints of nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and oak would show themselves. Finishing off this liquid embodiment of fall flavors, were nuances of pistachio and sweet maple syrup.
With each sip of Boulard 1985, the mind constantly would begin to conjure images of the fall apple harvest, and crisp leaves crunching underneath foot.
Boulard 1985 embodies the perfect the spirit that should be sipped during fall or next to a fireplace at winter.
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