Lemorton Vintage Calvados 1980 CRV10 fruits and spices in a

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This Crémant de Loire is made the exact same way — a real second fermentation in the bottle — from 100% Cabernet Franc

Bright and lithe with notes of lemon curd

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- The Chardonnay (adding its aromatic complexity

Lemorton Vintage Calvados 1980 CRV10 fruits and spices in aA 1980 vintage from Didier Lemorton's family operation in the Domfrontais region of Normandyover four decades in barrel. Like all Lemorton spirits, this is pear forward (approximately 70% pear, 30% apple), single distilled on a wood fired copper column still, and naturally fermented. The extended aging transforms the fresh fruit character into something deeper: dried fruit, aged wood, oxidative complexity, and a concentration that only decades of slow