172: Tour and Tasting w/Eric Bordelet | France

172: Cider Tasting with Eric Bordelet

Audio snapshots of a tasting and tour w/Eric Bordelet and the tour group visiting Normandy France in September 2018. The first Totally Cider Tour to roll out took a group of super awesome people to makers both on the Route du Cidre in Pays d'Auge and to the south region of Normandy called Domfrontais.

This chat features an afternoon visit to Eric's cidery.

Group photo on the roof of the Castle at Eric Bordelet's Domaine

We begin with:

• A meet and greet. Eric asked to hear each person on the tour's job or what they do at home. Very kind and personable.
• We walked over to the Castle that Eric is having rebuilt - it burned down many years ago and is an huge rebuilding of epic proportions.
• We spoke a bit about terroir and Eric encouraged us look to the trees that are already growing in our area. Listen to Jérôme Dupont's chat as he like Eric also encourages makers to look to their local varieties too - words well spoken.
• We move onto the cidery - not inside the cidery.
  • He strategically does not bring large groups in - one because he doesn't like to reveal all his trade secrets - and too to keep the area clean. However, he was quite transparent in discussing the first stages of working with the juice and filtration. I cut this audio section out and will be posting it to the Cider Chat Patreon page.

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• We finish this chat in the Tasting Room
  • We go through a number of cidres and poirés - Plus a new product called Cormé (Sorbus Domesticus).

1 of only 1000 bottles made in 2017

Want to visit Eric and other fantastic makers in Normandy?

We are going on this trip again and will have a visit to Eric's domaine and later that same day a cider dinner with Eric too. Cider Tour dates: September 22-28, 2019

Go to http://ciderchat.com/totallycidernormandy/

Mentions in this Chat

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• August 30th - September 1st, 2019 3 day cider fest with camping in the orchard https://rosscider.com/ciderfest/
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