Roger Groult, Jurancon Cask Finish 13YO Bottled 2020, Calvados Pays d'Auge Price_range_100_to_150 temperate summer that enabled the

temperate summer that enabled the grapes to achieve physiological maturity while retaining necessary acidic tension

Bottled at a sturdy 101 proof

and this is unfortunately

the estate ensures that the wine’s "intrinsic clarity" is never clouded

limestone-driven acid spine

Roger Groult, Jurancon Cask Finish 13YO Bottled 2020, Calvados Pays d'Auge Price_range_100_to_150 temperate summer that enabled theThis bottling is a touch on the divisive side, I think. It's a real stunner of a bottle, that's not the issue, it's just the influence of that Jurancon cask is unmistakable. It lends the normally orchard driven and bone dry Groult Calvados a caramelized stone fruit quality, sort of a peaches and butterscotch feeling along with a denser texture that I would normally get out of Groult. I immediately wanted a cobbler of some kind (the dessert, not the