Adrien Camut 6 Years Old Pays d'Auge Calvados Domaine de Semainville

Adrien Camut 6-Year-Old Calvados from Domaine de Semainville is a polished Pays d’Auge offering rich in apple identity and artisanal nuance. With six years of patient aging, this eau-de-vie strikes an elegant balance between vibrant orchard fruit and mature secondary notes—making it compelling neat or as a refined digestif.

🧪 Origins & Craftsmanship

Produced by the seventh-generation Camut family in Normandy’s esteemed Pays d’Auge region, this Calvados is distilled exclusively from estate-grown apples planted in the traditional hautes-tiges system. The cider ferments for 10–11 months in wooden vats before undergoing a double copper pot distillation fueled by firewood. It is then aged in older Limousin oak barrels and large foudres, allowing gentle oxidation. No new wood or additives are ever used. 

🌿 Style & Character

• Layered fruit-forward identity anchored in green apple and fresh cider, transitioning into apple pie spices with time.

• Complexity emerges in baked pastry, caramel, and subtle earthiness—balanced, not overpowered, by oak aging.

👃 Nose (Aroma)

Delivers expressive aromas of papaya, apple soda, milk chocolate, and vanilla wafer, with earthy undertones of mushroom and subtle orchard grass. Some tasters note a fleeting faint “butyric” edge typical in younger apple brandy, which quickly gives way to fresh and nostalgic apple sweetness. 

👅 Palate & Texture

Plush yet refreshing, with layered flavors of plum, dried apricot, date, and butterscotch, brightened over time by green apple and pie crust cinnamon. Textural richness is gentle—velvety but not heavy, inviting multiple sips. 

🔁 Finish

Clean yet lingering: cinnamon spice, green herbal accents, and a whisper of oak and tobacco-like complexity. It fades elegantly, leaving behind fruit-driven warmth and herbaceous clarity. 

🌟 Highlights at a Glance

A highly-respected grower with one of the best collections of old Calvados around, normally showing notes of baked apples and licorice.— Decanter