"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

30 October 2021

Lineage.


There is no secret to making good calvados, says Claude Camut. “All you need is the bonne fortune of being in the right place, on the right farm, with the right apples, for 800 years.” He should know. The head of a family that can indeed trace its lineage back eight centuries, to Viking times, he bears a name synonymous with some of Normandy’s finest farm-produced calvados.

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