Recommendations from ’t Bockje

What calvados goes with

Calvados is distilled cider from Normandy, made from apples and sometimes pears, and then laid down in oak.

Young calvados keeps the apple at the front and is fresh. The longer it lies on wood, the more dried apple, nut and cinnamon come in.

In Normandy, a small glass is poured in the middle of a long meal, the trou normand. That is not folklore but a practical pause between two heavy courses.

How to serve it

Glass
A tulip glass.
Temperature
Room temperature. Young calvados may be slightly cooler.
Neat or mixed
Neat after dinner. Young calvados also long, with apple juice or tonic.

What it goes with

  • apple pie
  • tarte tatin
  • camembert and other white-rind cheeses
  • pork with apple
  • nuts
  • coffee

This applies to the type as a whole. What an individual bottle does is on the page of that bottle.

Alle 46 calvados in het schapAll recommendations from ’t Bockje

Per bottle

A recommendation of its own for every bottle of calvados

On the page of every bottle of calvados in the shop there is a recommendation of its own: something with the meal or the drinks, a cheese and something for afterwards, with the shopping list and the preparation.

All bottles of calvados with a recommendation