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Copyright Tea Together
© 2008
The Spirit of
Cotentin
Last October, Tea
Together took best-selling author Simon Winchester and Mrs.
Winchester on a trip to Normandy to discover the mysteries of
making Calvados.
Simon lives on a farm in Connecticut and has 22 acres of apple trees. He wanted to go several steps beyond Cider to make an All-American Calvados. The perfect
instructor, we reckoned, was a farmer in the Cotentin peninsula, M.
Michel Laurent, who makes a fiercely local version. His implements
are inherited from his father and his grandfather before him.
Although he has at present a small dairy herd, he is looking
forward to his retirement when he will dust off the old press to up
his present production, which for now is just enough to sell from
the farm. Soon he will be selling his Calva on market days at
nearby Cherbourg.
After a day spent with the Bayeux tapestry and another day visiting the D Day beaches, we arrived one crisp October morning chez M. Laurent.
Watch Movie “Michel Laurent Calvados”
Simon lives on a farm in Connecticut and has 22 acres of apple trees. He wanted to go several steps beyond Cider to make an All-
After a day spent with the Bayeux tapestry and another day visiting the D Day beaches, we arrived one crisp October morning chez M. Laurent.
Watch Movie “Michel Laurent Calvados”
Simon was later
invited as a special guest to the world-famous
Calvados-Boulard distilleries, where the latest scion of the Boulard
dynasty, Vincent, was ready to explain the process of making
Calvados on a rather larger scale than M.
Laurent’s.
Watch Movie
“Calvados-
