Christian Drouin 2018 – Sauternes Cask

Our continued mission to promote this incredible spirit and get more people to experience it. This really is a labour of love for team LBD. These casks were purchased during our last trip to Normandy in June 2024. It has taken nearly a year to bring them home, we had originally thought these would be out before Christmas 2024! Again working with Christian Drouin, we’ve developed and excellent relationship here which really does get us access to some of their best stock. They also release some of their calvados casks to us for filling with whiskies, we’re really looking forward to sharing these with you one day.

We just love this stuff and really do believe these two casks (The Arran cask and the Sauternes cask) must be amongst some of the absolute best Calvados on the market in the UK.

Pays d’auge so it’s double pot distilled rather than column distilled and it’s just wonderful liquid. The pot distillation creates a richer, heavier distillate that preserves more apple oomph, that’s almost certainly the correct technical term.

Distilled at the idyllic Christian Drouin distillery in Normandy, please go and visit if you get the chance, it is how we imagine a Disney distillery would look.

No water added by us but likely watered in cask. It’s typical for water to be added to the casks over a number of years for calvados, rather than at bottling, but you knew that already… Natural colour and non-chill filtered.

213 bottles

Softer, sweeter, incredible texture, a magnificent introduction to how good Pays D’Auge Calvados can be.

Chris’s favourite of the cask picks, that’s why we ended up bringing home two casks as we couldn’t decide on one!