Julien Frémont
Julien Frémont
AboutJulien Frémont
Julien Frémont continues a family cider and Calvados tradition at Fort Manel in the Pays d’Auge, where the Frémonts have worked with apples since 1759. Cattle graze the grass beneath the high-stem apple trees and fertilize the soil. Julien farms the orchards organically and biodynamically.
Fruit is gathered by hand, rested in the loft and pressed through a basket press more than two centuries old before natural fermentation in seasoned wooden vats. The cider is bottled without added sulphur, fining or filtration. For his Calvados, fermented cider is distilled and the spirit matured in older barrels.
Julien Frémont Silex Cidre 750 mL
French Cider
$36.99
Deep orange in colour, this is the driest and most savoury cider in the range. The apples come from trees on flint-strewn upper slopes above the cellar, where cattle graze between the rows and supply manure for the orchard. Its dry, savoury character makes it particularly food-friendly, while the intense colour gives the glass a distinctive visual presence.
Julien Frémont Argile Farmhouse Cider
French Cider
$43.99
Baked apple, caramel and gentle sweet spice open the aroma, followed by a deep, rounded palate with fine bubbles and a clear mineral edge. Clay-soil bitterness balances the richer orchard fruit and carries the cider into a savoury, quietly persistent finish. Serve cool with roast pork, Camembert, buckwheat crêpes or an apple tart; its combination of freshness, depth and earthy structure handles both savoury and lightly sweet dishes.