Editing Calvados (section)

==Tasting==
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[[File:Bottle of Boulard calvados.jpg|thumb|right|Bottle of calvados Pays D'Auge]]
Calvados is the basis of the tradition of ''le trou Normand'', or "the Norman hole". This is a small drink of calvados taken between courses in a very long meal, sometimes with apple or pear [[sorbet]], supposedly to reawaken the appetite. Calvados can be served as an ''[[apéritif]]'', blended in drinks, between meals, as a ''digestif'', or with coffee. Well-made calvados should naturally be reminiscent of apples and pears, balanced with flavours of aging. The less-aged calvados distinguishes itself with its fresh apple and pear aromas. The longer the calvados is aged, the more the taste resembles that of any other aged brandy. As calvados ages, it may become golden or darker brown with orange elements and red mahogany. The nose and palate are delicate with concentration of aged apples and dried apricots balanced with butterscotch, nut, and chocolate aromas.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}