Comments on: Calvados, Where Rotting Apples Have a Good Name https://francerevisited.com/2010/04/calvados-where-rotting-apples-have-a-good-name/ Discover Travel Explore Encounter France and Paris Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:06:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alex Smith https://francerevisited.com/2010/04/calvados-where-rotting-apples-have-a-good-name/#comment-2669 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:25:43 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/home/?p=1492#comment-2669 Great article. I went to visit my great gradfathers grave last year and stumbled across the Cider Trail. Called into a farm and bought a bottle of Cidre and a bottle of Calvados for a friend back in Australia.

]]> By: Elissa Shaw https://francerevisited.com/2010/04/calvados-where-rotting-apples-have-a-good-name/#comment-1820 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/home/?p=1492#comment-1820 In April while out chasing chateaux and paying our respects to those of WWII we had a chance happening with a Calvados farm. I’m thinking we were outside of Bayeux but can’t be sure. We stopped in for a tasting and left with a box of cider and 2 brandies! Had no idea it even existed until a guard at the WWII cemetery told us about it!

]]> By: Gary Lee Kraut https://francerevisited.com/2010/04/calvados-where-rotting-apples-have-a-good-name/#comment-1456 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:41:46 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/home/?p=1492#comment-1456 In reply to Rosie.

Bonjour Rosie,
Cider exported from Normandy is often too expensive by the time it arrives in the U.S. and so has trouble competing with domestic cider. I suspect that it’s the same in Australia. And what often gets exported is decent generic cider. Furthermore, the kind of cider that you like doesn’t travel well, another reason to filter… and another reason for you to go to the cider (i.e. Normandy or Brittany) rather than wait for the cider to come to you.
Gary

]]> By: Rosie https://francerevisited.com/2010/04/calvados-where-rotting-apples-have-a-good-name/#comment-1455 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:24:04 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/home/?p=1492#comment-1455 There’s nothing for it, I will have to submit to a 23 hour trip back to Calvados, particularly to just to get the cider as it is in Calvados. Does anyone know where you can buy proper Normandy cider in Australia. I have now bought cider from Normandie in Australia, but it has been filtered, and doesn’t taste right, too bland. I suppose it would cost too much to get it freighted to Australia from Normandie?

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