# Calvados

A protected apple or pear cider brandy from Normandy that is distilled and matured in wood.

Parent category: [Apple brandy](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/apple-brandy.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Angel Face](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/angel-face.md): An equal-parts blend of gin, apricot brandy, and apple-rich Calvados.
- [Apple Cart](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/apple-cart.md): A Calvados Sidecar with crisp apple brandy, concentrated orange, and fresh lemon.
- [Conference](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/conference.md): A four-spirit Old Fashioned uniting rye, bourbon, Cognac, and Calvados with demerara and bitters.
- [Corpse Reviver No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/corpse-reviver-no-1.md): Cognac, Calvados, and sweet vermouth make a dark, spirit-forward member of the loosely named Corpse Reviver family, entirely unlike the bright gin-and-citrus No. 2.
- [Diki-Diki](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/diki-diki.md): Calvados leads Swedish Punsch and grapefruit in Robert Vermeire’s compact 1922 Embassy Club drink, joining orchard fruit to smoky cane spice.
- [Golden Dawn](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/golden-dawn.md): Equal gin, Calvados, apricot, and orange sit above a vivid sunken measure of grenadine in T. Buttery’s layered British classic.
- [Widow's Kiss](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/widows-kiss.md): Calvados anchors equal small measures of Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine in a compact nineteenth-century digestif whose sweetness is checked by aromatic bitters.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/calvados
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/calvados-d521146a.webp
- Source: https://www.idac-aoc.fr/images/cdc/CDC_Calvados.pdf