Pommeau [2024]

The Pommeau is about concentration, age and blending. There are three components that make up the blend – spirits, distilled from apples and pears and aged for at least 2 years, cryo-concentrated fresh apple juice, and dry cider. The spirits come off the still at around 70% abv, and are blended with cryo-concentrated apple juice down to around 45% abv, put in oak wine barrels and forget about them for two years.

For sipping after dinner or to pair with chestnuts roasted on an open fire or winter pears poached in pommeau with warm spices.