• Domaine Lesuffleur

    • Friardel

    At a Glance

    • Apple Varieties: 49% bitter (Mettais, Frèquin...), 36% bittersweet (Binet Rouge, Bisquet), 15% tart (Rambeau, René Martin)
    • Tree Age: Average of 55 years (as of 2025)
    • Terroir: Friardel, Pays-d'Auge, blue flint, silt and clay over a chalk bedrock.
    • Agriculture: Organic (AB), high-branched, low density spacing with 100-150 trees/ha.
    • Cider-making: Hand picked based on maturity, washed, ambient yeast fermentation, ancestral method, aged for 27 months on the lees in bottles, Keeving method disgorgement, racked 3-4 times, lightly filtered, bottled by gravity.

    Additional Info

    This orchard was acquired by Benoit's grandfather in the 1960s, and even back then, the trees were already considered quite old. Benoit replants this orchard as needed with the goal of keeping a majority of old trees.