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Guided route · 5 stops

Fruit spirits, an arc of orchards

Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comté, Normandy: fruit distillation follows the hillside and mountain orchards, and ignores the administrative divisions laid over it.

Map of the stop: 16 delimited areas drawn from the INAO outlines (Framboise d'Alsace, Kirsch d'Alsace, Kirsch de Fougerolles, Mirabelle d'Alsace, Mirabelle de Lorraine, Quetsch d'Alsace, Calvados, Calvados Domfrontais, Calvados Pays d'Auge, Eau-de-vie de cidre de Bretagne, Eau-de-vie de cidre de Normandie, Eau-de-vie de cidre du Maine, Eau-de-vie de poiré de Normandie, Pommeau de Bretagne, Pommeau de Normandie, Pommeau du Maine). Scale: 250 km. Paris Lyon Marseille Bordeaux Toulouse Nantes Lille Framboise d'Alsace Kirsch d'Alsace Kirsch de Fougerolles Mirabelle de Lorraine Calvados Calvados Domfrontais Calvados Pays d'Auge Eau-de-vie de cidre de Bretagne Eau-de-vie de cidre de Normandie Eau-de-vie de cidre du Maine Pommeau de Bretagne 250 km delimited areas · INAO outline
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Stop 01 of 05 · The frame

The arc of orchards

Sixteen entries and — uniquely in this tour — sixteen delimited areas, each drawn from the INAO outlines. The map shows two poles, the stone-fruit East and the apple West, which administrative divisions cut across without explaining them.

Subject
Calvados
Status
Geographical indication registered in the European Union
Place
Normandy, France
Precision
Delimited area, digitised outline
Map of the stop: 4 delimited areas drawn from the INAO outlines (Framboise d'Alsace, Kirsch d'Alsace, Mirabelle d'Alsace, Quetsch d'Alsace). Scale: 100 km. Strasbourg Dijon Reims Nancy Besançon Metz Mulhouse Colmar Sélestat Pontarlier Lons-le-Saunier Arbois Beaune Nuits-Saint-Georges Épernay AISNE ARDENNES AUBE CÔTE-D’OR DOUBS JURA MARNE HAUTE-MARNE MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE MEUSE MOSELLE NIÈVRE BAS-RHIN HAUT-RHIN HAUTE-SAÔNE SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE YONNE TERRITOIRE DE BELFORT Framboise d'Alsace Kirsch d'Alsace 100 km delimited areas · INAO outline
2 names could not be written without covering others.

Stop 02 of 05 · The East

Alsace, one fruit per denomination

Raspberry, cherry, mirabelle, quetsche: four geographical indications over the same region, divided by fruit and not by place. It is the reverse of Cognac — there, one product and six terroirs; here, one terroir and four products. The two logics coexist in the same law.

Subject
Kirsch d'Alsace
Status
Geographical indication registered in the European Union
Place
Grand Est, France
Precision
Delimited area, digitised outline
Map of the stop: 2 delimited areas drawn from the INAO outlines (Kirsch de Fougerolles, Mirabelle de Lorraine). Scale: 100 km. Paris Strasbourg Dijon Reims Nancy Besançon Metz Mulhouse Colmar Sélestat Ribeauvillé Pontarlier Arbois Beaune Nuits-Saint-Georges Cambrai Épernay AISNE ARDENNES AUBE CHER CÔTE-D’OR DOUBS JURA LOIRET MARNE HAUTE-MARNE MEUSE MOSELLE NIÈVRE NORD OISE PAS-DE-CALAIS HAUTE-SAÔNE SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE PARIS SEINE-ET-MARNE SOMME VOSGES YONNE TERRITOIRE DE BELFORT ESSONNE VAL-D’OISE Kirsch de Fougerolles Mirabelle de Lorraine 100 km delimited areas · INAO outline

Stop 03 of 05 · The East, overflowing

Fougerolles and Lorraine

The orchard ignores the administrative region: kirsch has a second capital at Fougerolles, on the Franche-Comté side, and the mirabelle a Lorraine area distinct from the Alsatian one. Two areas that straddle regional boundaries — exactly what the room's thesis announces.

Subject
Kirsch de Fougerolles
Status
Geographical indication registered in the European Union
Place
Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France
Precision
Delimited area, digitised outline
Map of the stop: 4 delimited areas drawn from the INAO outlines (Calvados, Calvados Domfrontais, Calvados Pays d'Auge, Eau-de-vie de poiré de Normandie). Scale: 100 km. Paris Nantes Lille Rennes Tours Orléans Reims Angers Le Mans Caen Rouen Amiens AISNE ARDENNES AUBE CHER CÔTE-D’OR CÔTES-D’ARMOR EURE-ET-LOIR FINISTÈRE ILLE-ET-VILAINE INDRE-ET-LOIRE LOIR-ET-CHER LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE LOIRET MAINE-ET-LOIRE MARNE MAYENNE MORBIHAN NIÈVRE NORD OISE PAS-DE-CALAIS SARTHE PARIS SEINE-MARITIME SEINE-ET-MARNE YVELINES SOMME YONNE ESSONNE Calvados Calvados Domfrontais Calvados Pays d'Auge Eau-de-vie de poiré de Normandie 100 km delimited areas · INAO outline

Stop 04 of 05 · The West

Cider Normandy, and its hierarchy

Calvados is structured like Cognac: a broad appellation, then tighter areas — the Pays d'Auge and its double distillation, the Domfrontais where the pear tree comes into play. The pear even has its own spirit: the hierarchy of appellations can tell apart even the trees.

Subject
Calvados
Status
Geographical indication registered in the European Union
Place
Normandy, France
Precision
Delimited area, digitised outline
Map of the stop: 6 delimited areas drawn from the INAO outlines (Eau-de-vie de cidre de Bretagne, Eau-de-vie de cidre de Normandie, Eau-de-vie de cidre du Maine, Pommeau de Bretagne, Pommeau de Normandie, Pommeau du Maine). Scale: 250 km. Paris Nantes Lille Dijon Clermont-Ferrand Limoges Poitiers Tours Orléans Reims Angers Caen Rouen Amiens Brest La Rochelle Eau-de-vie de cidre de Bretagne Eau-de-vie de cidre de Normandie Eau-de-vie de cidre du Maine Pommeau de Bretagne Pommeau de Normandie Pommeau du Maine 250 km delimited areas · INAO outline

Stop 05 of 05 · The West, widened

Brittany, Maine: cider beyond Calvados

Three cider spirits and three pommeaux — where apple must meets the spirit instead of being distilled on its own. Six geographical indications that draw a greater cider West of which Calvados is only the best-known part. Here again, the orchard comes before the division.

Subject
Pommeau de Normandie
Status
Geographical indication registered in the European Union
Place
Normandy, France
Precision
Delimited area, digitised outline

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What this route has shown, and what it has not

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Entries outside any route
18 across the whole Atlas