La Chouette (Pierre-Henri Agnes)
Cidery in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, Normandie, France 🇫🇷
Established in 2014
Out of business
Contact
Description
Located near the stunning Mont Saint-Michel World Heritage site, La Chouette is produced in the cradle of France’s cider-making region. Cider-making has been a part of Pierre-Henri Agnes’ family tradition for three generations. Like Norman farmers of their time, both of Pierre-Henri’s grandfathers crafted traditional farmhouse cider (“cidre bouché”) with cider apples from their orchards or by buying cider apples and using the services of a mobile cider press and mobile Calvados still (a very popular approach in the 1940s to 1970s). When Pierre-Henri and his friend Alex decided to launch their cider company, Pierre-Henri remembered the story of an owl that would fly over his grandfather’s farm and dwell under the roof in the main building where his grandfather would store the fermenting apple juice. That owl was Pierre-Henri’s inspiration for the brand, La Chouette, which means “the Owl” in French.
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
An amber cider with a fast disappearing beige head. The aroma has notes of apples and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of apples and flowers, leading to a tart finish.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2016
at 12:51
3.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
29.01.2016, 0,33l bottle @ home:
Small slightly fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is strange sour-ish, baby lotion, sour apples, grass, weeds, paper, apple peel, minerals, caramel. Taste is slightly sour-ish dry soapy, weeds, apple peel, chalk, minerals, paper, grass, apples, hints of soap / chlorine. Medium bitterness, slightly sour-ish mineraly mouthfeel. Meh!
Small slightly fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is strange sour-ish, baby lotion, sour apples, grass, weeds, paper, apple peel, minerals, caramel. Taste is slightly sour-ish dry soapy, weeds, apple peel, chalk, minerals, paper, grass, apples, hints of soap / chlorine. Medium bitterness, slightly sour-ish mineraly mouthfeel. Meh!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2016
at 10:52
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
How: Bottle.
Where: NK Bar, Stockholm.
Appearance: Clear golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Apples, fruit.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Apple juice, a bit acidic, fruit.
Where: NK Bar, Stockholm.
Appearance: Clear golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Apples, fruit.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Apple juice, a bit acidic, fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2015
at 11:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Akkurat. Pours clear and golden orange with no lasting head. Aroma is mild fruity and sweet apples. Sweet, fruity and juicy with very light vanilla notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2015
at 07:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 330ml. [ As La Chouette The French Cider ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate apple, vanilla, sweet apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a average duration, tart apple, sweet apple, apple juice. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150528]
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2015
at 08:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
DØE. Clear golden with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet and apple juice. Flavor is medium sweet. Light dry finish. 280515
Tried
on 02 Jun 2015
at 14:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at KØ15. Mild apple aroma. Clear dark golden colour. The flavour has a sweet apple note. Mild carbonation. Faint apple core flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2015
at 03:01
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, KØ15. Pours clear golden woth no head. Clear aroma of sweet apples. Sweet flavour of apples,nwith some dusty hints and just a touch of carbonation. Sweet aftertaste. Okay butbtoo sweet for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2015
at 14:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with no lasting head. Aroma is mild fruity and zesty apples. Sweet, fruity, juicy and mild ligerig fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2015
at 14:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle @ Fox and Hounds, Aabenraa. Almost clear, slightly dark golden body with a small white head. Aroma has quite clean apple, apple core with hint of yeast and oak. Flavor is medium sweet apple juice, apple cores, light fruity acidity and a hint of wood. Actually I don’t think they are using oak barrels when reading their web pages, but I find it a bit oak/wood flavored anyway. OK balanced body and decent aftertaste. Have a feeling this is a rather commercial business, but the cider tastes surprisingly good and “crafty” as it is. Nothing super complex, but refreshing, tasty and enjoyable with a pretty good balance between sweetness and acidity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2015
at 13:49