Flowers
As the buds break and the flowers blossom the cycle begins. If severe frost strikes, the crop will be decimated.
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Apples
As Summer progresses the trees are filled with an abundance of Cider apples
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Autumn arrives and the apples are picked or fall from the trees
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All the apples are collected and returned to the Cidrerie where selection by hand weeds out the rotten fruit
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After fermentation in tanks the Cider is bottled and Corked except for —
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The ciders which go into pot stills to make Calvados. In the Pays d’Auge they use the method of double distillation, as in Cognac
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