About
Our cider house-distillery is located in the heart of the Pays de Bray buttonhole. The 18th century farmhouse is half-timbered and cob, it houses the Calvados and Pommeau de Normandie cellars for perfect completion.
Hervé and Denise fell in love with this place in 1984 and that's where the adventure began!! Since then, we have constantly sought quality, rigor and authenticity in each of our products. Our Domaine aspires to family, warm, natural values, reflecting our products. Our 15ha orchard contains 24 different varieties of cider apples as well as a few varieties of perry pears.
Hervé and Denise fell in love with this place in 1984 and that's where the adventure began!! Since then, we have constantly sought quality, rigor and authenticity in each of our products. Our Domaine aspires to family, warm, natural values, reflecting our products. Our 15ha orchard contains 24 different varieties of cider apples as well as a few varieties of perry pears.
7.2/10
Nice orange color, not a lot of fizz. Holy moly! More woodjuice than applejuice. Very dry&wry, almost no recognizable applearoma. Rubberband, cork, treebark, oystershell, dried orange peel. Pretty hardcore this one. Not an easy like. Can’t dismiss either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2021
at 23:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml wired cork bottle from Ciderwinkel. Opened with a loud pop. Orangey gold colour, shirt-lived fizzy white foam head and aroma of tangy apple, light funk, caramel hints. Taste is fleshy apple, some apple skin and core, with slight barnyard funky notes, alittle caramel and drying tannins. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, dry tangy tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2019
at 20:07
7/10
Dense mossy & moldy apples, applesauce, custard, dry wood, I’m surprised by generous notes of chorizo sausage in this cider. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body, medium dry, but on the dryer end of the spectrum. Bit dusty mouthfeel & soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2019
at 22:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at home. Clear golden with white ring head. Dense mossy and moldy apples, applesauce, custard, dry wood, I’m surprised by generous notes of chorizo sausage in this cider. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body, medium dry, but on the dryer end of the spectrum. Bit dusty mouthfeel and soft carbonation. Interesting stuff. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cidre Fermier Du Pays De Bray Tradition on 19 Feb 2019 at 13:33 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2019
at 21:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
75cl bottle as a gift from my French in-laws. Has a mushy overripe apple aroma with concentrated desert apple taste, with a typical Normandy level sweetness and definite caramel notes. Perfectly nice but those caramel elements aren’t for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2014
at 12:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled (from Alko Prisma, Vaasa). Goldeny pale orangeish colour with a medium head while pouring, but which disappears quite quickly afterwards. Lots of preassure in the bottle, but the cider stayed calm. So, over to the elements of the whole thing, before I forget to rate, drunken me. Aroma is apples, and some ripe apples, and some toffee and sadly that’s about it. The flavour is apples, green and red ones, with both ripe and quite fresh and young ones too. Also there’s a slight resiny touch to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2013
at 12:01
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
75 cl bottle @ HeBF’13
Aroma has ripe and somewhat floury apples. Feels a bit leathery. Also distant gluey notes. Flavour is quite short with slightly sweet apples, sugary notes. Palate is a bit too high on CO2 and feels leathery.
Aroma has ripe and somewhat floury apples. Feels a bit leathery. Also distant gluey notes. Flavour is quite short with slightly sweet apples, sugary notes. Palate is a bit too high on CO2 and feels leathery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2013
at 08:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle Clear, orange body. No head. Faint aroma of sour apples. Moderately sweet, lightly sour flavour. Quite ok balance but not very complex nor special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 13:15