Christian Drouin Calvados 2018 – Arran Whisky Cask

*RESTOCKING FRIDAY 23RD MAY*

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.

This single cask calvados is from an Arran whisky cask so combines two of our favourite distilleries in one bottle! Aged 6 years

As such there’s a level of geekery that you’re going to need to run with for now, but hey it’s our company and we’ll bottle what we like and how we like!

The Christian Drouin distillery is just down the road from the Bénouville bridge, but it’s more famously known as Pegasus Bridge. This was the first area of France to be liberated on D-Day. On the 6^th of June 1944, before helicopters came into service, the glider regiment crash landed wooden gliders, at 90 miles per hour within meters of this bridge and stormed it, taking it for the allies. The Ox and Bucks used the code phrase “Ham & Jam” to announce the success of the mission, that’s why that appears on the label and the colours used are representative of the glider and para regiments. So there you go, an obvious choice for a label….Ok we entertain ourselves.

296 Bottles