Domaine des Cinq Autels

Cidery in Valambray, Normandie, France 🇫🇷

Established in 1967

Contact
3 Rue de la Forge, Valambray, 14190, France
Description
For 60 years, our domain has developed by mastering different crops, such as fruit, fodder, cereals. In 1984, we gave priority to the cultivation and processing of apples, without however renouncing our organic heritage.

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

Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Clear deep copper. Deep caramel, dry tannins, oak, swert and sour apple, oxidized apple, light spices, sour blackberries, cinnamon. Solid medium sweet, bitter and sour. Full bodied. A bit rough, but quite tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Dec 2025 at 20:44


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Slight hazy with lasting small white head. Crisp green apple, lots of barnyard funk, apricot, dry wood, grapefruit. Very fruity and crisp, but also solid tannins. Under medium sweet, light sour. Medium bodied, fizzy carbonation and over medium dry. Lovely!

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2025 at 18:32


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at La Cidrerie du Canal, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is full of champagne-like effervescence, musty funky apple skins, and smokiness from the Islay. Flavour wonderfully integrates the Islay and the funk, with plenty of peat, funky horse blanket, and bone dry apple skins. Carbonation is the usual champagne-like. Excellent experimental cider.

Tried from Draft at La Cidrerie on 27 Apr 2025 at 21:28


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

On tap at La Cidrerie du Canal, pours a clear golden with a small white bubbly head. Aroma seems dry, with champagne-like effervescence and dry apple skins. Flavour is bone dry, with champagne-like effervescence, plenty of funk, and musty apple skins. Real nice funk and carbonation to express the dryness. Excellent.

Tried from Draft at La Cidrerie on 27 Apr 2025 at 21:27


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Clear golden. Massive peat, dry apple peel, oak, leather, chalk, salty seawater, seaweed, light juicy. Light sweet, bitter and sour. Medium bodied, quite dry. My first peated whisky barrel aged cider, quite nice!

Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2025 at 19:20


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

Bottle. Slightly cloudy golden body with a small white head. Aroma is green apple, tart apple, some wood and cellar notes with a faint funky hint. Flavor is refreshing apple's, both sweet and acidic, mild cellar note, some wood and hint of funk. Very nice and food friendly, god balanced, especially considering only 4,8% ABV. Higly enjoable.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2025 at 07:43


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

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Tried from Draft on 26 Sep 2024 at 09:03


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

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Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2024 at 15:44


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

750ml wired cork bottle from Cork & Cask. 5.3%. Opened with a pop. Clear orangey gold colour, foamy white head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of apple, funk, caramel. Taste is sweet, fruity, apple, juicy, with caramel hints, some barnyard funk and bittersweet tannins. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, medium-sweet tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 30 May 2024 at 20:04


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

Bottle. Clear deep golden. Crisp apple, very mineral, dry woody notes, apple pie, dried flowers. Light fruity, quite present tannins but it's not heavy or thick, it's more on the crisp and bright side. Light sweet. Solid medium bodied. Quite good.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2024 at 19:26