Cidriculteur Eric Bordelet

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

Established in 1992

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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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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled@vPBF2012. Hazy golden colour, no head. Aroma is apples, vanilla, some mild tartness. Flavour is vanilla, some tart apples, sweet apples and mild yeasty notes. Quite pleasantly balanced.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Aug 2012 at 03:00

6.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
75 cl bottle vintage 2010 (3,5%) @ lusikka
Aroma has ripe and floury pear with some leathery notes and some wallpaper paste. Flavour is somewhat sour and leathery with rather strong pear aromas, some glue and wallpaper paste. A bit floury and ’slimy’ feeling here. Gets sweeter towards the end of the glass. Dry finish, very strong flavour for this ABV.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Jun 2012 at 06:53

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. golden colour with a white head. Aroma is sourness, apple, oak. Flavour is sourness, apple, oak. OK cider.
Tried from Bottle on 13 May 2012 at 04:07

6.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Clear deep golden with tiny white head. Aroma is apples and fruit. Flavour is apples, medium sweet, medium dry, medium carbonation and a little citric.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2012 at 00:11

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
75 cl bottle. Dark yellow colour. Moderate apple aroma. Moderate semi dry apple flavor. Average finish. Oily palate.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2012 at 01:37

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Clear yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, apples and wood. Flavor is medium sweet and light acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. 140412
Tried on 15 Apr 2012 at 12:49

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. No head. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are sweet apples, sulphur and juice like. Semi dry finish.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2012 at 11:40

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle, 75cl corked. It’s a clear, dark golden cider, very lighlty sparkling and with a thin layer of bubbles on top. A bit weak on the nose, mostly apples of course, but also some sulphurish, earthy notes. Rather weak on the palate too, but not bad in any way. Apples, apple cores and some cellar hints. Apples and some acidity in the finish. Quite nice anyway. 120124
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2012 at 11:54

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle 750ml @ gunnfryd
Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma is very mild with light sour apples and wood. Taste is light sweet and light to medium sour with a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2012 at 11:48

8.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 10 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
Sampled on two separate occasions @ Astor Wines. Cider week really brought out the lush in me. :D Clear, pale golden lacquer. Champagne fizz. Smells of gentle, wine poached pears. Something faintly tropical & grassy. Very delicate, but very enticing. First, it’s not nearly as saturated as most local perries. Disciplined, coaxing acid. Bright pear juice & some softer apple-like qualities. Not much tartness. Powdered sugar, faint vanilla, & a bit of yeast. Long, microbeaded finish of honeycomb & perfumey pear. Amazing.
Tried on 04 Nov 2011 at 22:51