Roger Groult, Jurancon Cask Finish 13YO Bottled 2020, Calvados Pays d'Auge Price_range_100_to_150 concentrated crop of thick-skinned berries

concentrated crop of thick-skinned berries

Bottled at a sturdy 101 proof

This bottling remains a persistent and linear expression of the site

This Monthélie comes from vines planted in 1965 on red clay

temperate summer that enabled the grapes to achieve physiological maturity while retaining necessary acidic tension

Roger Groult, Jurancon Cask Finish 13YO Bottled 2020, Calvados Pays d'Auge Price_range_100_to_150 concentrated crop of thick-skinned berriesThis bottling is a touch on the divisive side, I think. It's a real stunner of a bottle, that's not the issue, it's just the influence of that Jurancon cask is unmistakable. It lends the normally orchard driven and bone dry Groult Calvados a caramelized stone fruit quality, sort of a peaches and butterscotch feeling along with a denser texture that I would normally get out of Groult. I immediately wanted a cobbler of some kind (the dessert, not the