• Domaine Lesuffleur
  • Friardel Poiré

    At a Glance

    • Apple Varieties: Heritage pear variety, species unknown.
    • Tree Age: Planted in the early 1800s, 200+ years old
    • Terroir: From a single high-branch pear tree in the Friardel orchard, blue flint and clay over a chalk bedrock.
    • Agriculture: Organic (AB, 2023), low density spacing with 100-150 trees/ha.
    • Cider-making: Hand picked based on maturity, washed, ambient yeast fermentation, ancestral method, aged for 30 months on the lees in bottles, Keeving method disgorgement, racked 3-4 times, lightly filtered, bottled by gravity.