Smells of baked apples, raisins, and brandy. The taste is rich and sweet with flavors of apple juice, toasted oak, honey, and pear. The finish is long and dry with a light burn, featuring notes of apple skins, spiced baked apples, and oak. Overall, I prefer this over the Laird’s Apple Brandy as it is smoother, less intensely oaked, and has a better apple flavor. Definitely worth a try if you like sweeter (though far from cloying) sipping spirits and apples.
A Calvados Sidecar is delightfully smooth and the apple and lemon complement each other quite well.
Similarly, a Calvados Jack Rose is much smoother, more fruit forward, and in my opinion, better in every way than one made with Laird’s.
The “Apple Jack” cocktail that made blended Applejack drinkable is utterly divine with Calvados. The definitive apple sour.