N1 · category
Calvados
- Family
- Single-distillate spirit
- Raw materials
- Fruit
- Place of origin
- Normandy, France
Cider or perry spirit, produced in Normandy. Protected designation of origin.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
Amber from the cask, adjustable — maturation in wood, caramel allowed to even it out. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
The Pays d'Auge keeps the requirement of double distillation in a pot still.
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Calvados Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Calvados Domfrontais Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Calvados Pays d'Auge Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
Sources and validation
- Sources of the corpus
- Names and statuses: eAmbrosia, the official register of geographical indications of the European Union. Geometries: INAO, Délimitation des aires géographiques des SIQO (27/07/2026), Licence Ouverte v2.0, reprojected to WGS84.
- Corpus updated on
- 1 August 2026
- Validation
- Seed entry Corpus under construction. Each entry is checked and sourced before validation by the future scholarly board. Protection status and mode of location are carried by each entry: an area delimited by a product specification and a reference-town point do not carry the same weight.