Pyrrhus
At a Glance
- Apple Varieties: 33% sweet apples from the Domaine (Friardel), 33% sharp apples from Benoit's father (La Folletière), 33% bitter apples from Benoit's grandfather (Friardel)
- Tree Age: La Folletière planted in 1996, Friardel planted in the late 1960s
- Terroir: La Folletière: brown flint and silt with some clay over chalk. Friardel: blue flint and silt with some clay over chalk.
- Agriculture: Organic (AB, 2023)
- 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.
Wines
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Sparkling
