Born to a formidable Corsican mother, my Norman side had to honour our family and the most beautiful of islands by creating this blend of chestnuts from the Alta Paese and Castagniccia with Calvados from the Pays d'Auge in Normandy.
To these we add our Norman chestnuts, along with a good proportion of the best varieties from the Ardèche, the ones the greatest pastry chefs keep for making marrons glacés...
An enormous fireplace lets us roast large quantities over a wood fire, before crushing them and blending them, still hot, with our house calvados. A measured dose of Bourbon vanilla pods from Madagascar, the sweetest and creamiest of all, enriches them with their inimitable perfume… Just imagine the scents of autumn and its insanely toasted aromas.
Several years of ageing in oak casks then add their oak and tannins.
A considerable amount of work, but what a pleasure to have pulled off this luxury blend, unique in the world, and of a quality unmatched even in Corsica!
We did not put ourselves out for nothing!
