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Christian Drouin Experience

The café-calva is back in Paris!

-• coffee -• Paris

The café-calva is back in Paris!

Café Calva has enjoyed immense popularity in French farms, cabarets and bistros since the 1880s. On the counters of Parisian bistros, cider brandy or Calvados was most often poured directly into the coffee. In working-class housing estates and until the end of the 1970s, unless specified when ordering, coffees were systematically watered down, a ritual that has since tended to disappear. However, nothing predisposed coffee to be married to Calvados, because coffee, discovered in the land of Islam, had spread to a world where it was used as a...

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Christian Drouin's Gin, a Gin of terroir and passion

-• Regional Gin -• Christian Drouin's Gin -• cider apples

Christian Drouin's Gin, a Gin of terroir and passion

In 2015, we presented our first bottles of Gin, happy to create a unique recipe incorporating more than thirty varieties of cider apples as well as 7 botanicals chosen for their marriage with Juniper and apple. Each botanical is macerated and distilled separately according to a unique process to extract the quintessence of the aromas. In this short video, Guillaume Drouin goes back over the history of our Gin and the stages of its production.   

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