Sidre Brut - Eric Bordelet 2023
Originally a sommelier, Éric Bordelet took over the family business in 1992 after a long apprenticeship with big names in the restaurant and wine world. He owns 23 hectares of orchard (cider apples, perry pears and corms) certified organic since 1996, supplemented by biodynamic soils. His farm is located at the Château de Hauteville, in southern Normandy , on the Armorican massif in the extension of the Domfrontais on the borders of Mayenne and Orne. He cultivates around thirty varieties of apples, around twenty varieties of perry pears and eight varieties of corms.
The manual harvest is selective according to the ripeness of the fruit. The processing is done with respect for each fruit, then they are assembled, roughly crushed, delicately pressed before settling and racking the juice. Fermentation, in the ancestral manner, is carried out in vats then bottling takes place over several weeks or even months depending on the vintages with more or less residual sugars.
Sidre Brut is made from 20 different varieties of apples , sweet, bitter and sour.
