Cidriculteur Eric Bordelet

Cidery in Charchigné, Pays de la Loire, France 🇫🇷

Established in 1992

Contact
Chateau de Hauteville, Charchigné, 53250, France
Description
Known more as a cutting-edge cider maker, Eric Bordelet was a top sommelier at Arpege in Paris, before returning home to Normandy in 1992 to take over the family business. He biodynamically grows more than 20 apple varieties and 15 pear varieties

Production Overview: Manual harvesting from September to December. Fruit is coarsely crushed and gently pressed with settling and racking of the juice. Fermentation using traditional and natural ‘methode ancestrale’ (using only the fruits natural sugars) in vats and bottled retaining natural balance of sugar and acidity with additions of sulphites (mineral and solution) between 50-80 mg depending on cuvee and vintage. These are naturally gently sparkling in order to retain the original quality of each fruit.

Orchards: Mostly estate fruit with Poire Granit coming from very old trees scattered throughout the region. 30 varieties of apples, 20 varieties of pears and 8 varieties of Cormes.

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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Misted gold. No head. Pleasant funk, barnyard, overripe, soaked apples. Rather dry. Intense flavour. Tart ending. Not bad.

Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2026 at 16:44


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Tried on 21 Oct 2025 at 04:41


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330mL bottle, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has pungent pear core, light barnyard notes, and some sugar. Flavour is sweeter than I want in a perry, with plenty of pear core, sugars, and a hint of funk. Definitely not an elite French perry/cider but it’s okay for a sweeter one.

Tried from Bottle from Brewery Creek Cold Beer and Wine Store on 26 Sep 2025 at 06:57


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bouteille 33cl @ Stigbergets Fot - partagé avec Maria. BB ?
Léger orangé, blanc pétillant peu tenace.
Arôme sur un bouquet pomme caramélisée, acerbe, fleuri en rétro-nasal - pommes pressées.
Palais sur une belle présence de pomme assez sec voire très marqué - acerbe tenace, touche en retrait surfant sur un effet tatin avec ce côé pomme caramélisée mais le tout reste quand même pris par un fini acerbe et bien pétillant.

Tried from Bottle at Stigbergets Fot on 16 Aug 2025 at 08:29


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

750ml wired cork bottle from Vinatis. Opened with a pop. Clear golden colour, white foam head and aroma of ripe apple, fleshy, caramel. Taste is sweet, juicy apple, vanilla, caramel, with some funk and drying tannins. Medium bodied, spiky carbonation, medium sweet earthy tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2025 at 20:27


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750ml wired cork bottle from Vinatis. 4.5%. Opened with a pop. Sparkling, orangey gold colour, foamy off-white head that dissipates away and aroma of apple, fruit, baked notes, caramel. Taste is sweet, appley, ripe, fruity, caramel, hint of funk, with earthy bittersweet tannins. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, medium drying tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2024 at 20:54


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2024 at 17:08


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Keg at the Fidelity Bar, Dublin, 17/11/2024.
Golden blonde with carbonation evident and topped with a decent white head, as it goes for a cider.
Nose is crisp apple, light sugar sprinkle, orchard wood.
Taste comprises caramelised apples, herb, straw, tannins.
Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, drying close.
Tidy refreshing cider.

Tried on 17 Nov 2024 at 00:00


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

(Bottle) Golden colour, slightly hazy, with brief white head. Fruity nose with notes of pears, spices, honey, hay and a touch of vanilla. Fruity taste with yellow pears, spices, honey, hay, a touc of green tea and a generous acidity in the finish. Light body, with a slight sweetness. Fresh, tatsy and well balanced perry. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2024 at 20:43


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

clear golden colour, moderate sized, though quickly disappearing off-white head; aroma and taste of apple peel, canned apple, some pear and earthy notes; quite good cider

Tried from Can on 16 Jun 2024 at 17:12