This "8 year old" Calvados has been produced following the strict criteria of the label "Calvados Pays d'Auge", using only Cider apples from Pays d'Auge. Their apple trees yield about twenty varieties of cider apples : sweet, bitter-sweet,bitter and acidulous. Examples of varieties : Bisquet, Binet Rouge, Noel des Champs, Egyptia, etc. Calvados are still distilled over a wood fire in three little pot stills to maintain traditional and artisanal methods of production. It is then aged in in oval shaped oak barrels (which improves contact with wood) of 2000 litres each, in one of the cellars built by Jean-Pierre Groult for a minimum of 8 years.