Cidre Bouvy Extra Brut 750ML

Cidre Bouvy Extra Brut

REGION: FRANCE • Champagne • Mont sur Corville

STYLE: A dry, refreshing cider that is the product of eight different apple varieties, grown on the limestone- and clay-rich soils in the Vallée de l’Ardre in Champagne. Orchards are tended organically. Fermentation happens on indigenous yeasts in bottle and the cider is never pasteurized. Aged on lees in bottle.

ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS: Apple varieties: Avrolle, Douce Coët, Douce Moen, Bedan, Fréquinette, Dabinett, Douce de l’Avent, and Locard Vert

ABV: 7%

TASTING IMPRESSIONS: Dry with notes of ripe yellow apple, marigold flower, yellow flowers, wet stones. Very juicy fruit, long and precise; elegant, fine bubbles

Victor Bouvy is the fourth generation to run his family’s farm in Mont-Sur-Corville in the Vallée de l’Ardre in the heart of Champagne, tucked between the Montagne de Reims and the Marne Valley.

In the early 2000s, Victor’s father began successfully cultivating a vast array of new fruit varieties for simple table consumption, as the region’s calcareous, silty-clay soils proved to be a perfect match for apples (and not just Pinot Meunier in the production of fine Champagne!)

Victor wanted to take the family’s commitment to apples a step further. With a degree in agricultural engineering and a passion for traditional dry cider, Victor traveled to Normandy to better learn the intricacies of cider production. Upon his return in 2019 he planted a new and complimentary mixture of apple varieties, ideal for cider production with the goal of creating a harmonious cider that would express an ideal balance of sweet, bitter and tart.

How did we discover a traditional cider producer in the middle of Champagne? Winemaker Francis Egly of Domaine Egly-Ouriet introduced us! Not only has Francis been teaching Victor all he knows about the art of fermentation, he’s also soon to be his father-in-law – when Victor marries Francis Egly’s daughter, Clemence.