Julien Thurel - Paturage Cormé
Julien Thurel - Paturage Cormé
Julien Thurel's Paturage Cormé, or Pasture, is a rare bottle of fine "cider" made from an extraordinary and rare fruit. Cormé is a unique French sparkling wine made from cormier fruit (also known as Sorbus Domestica or Service Tree fruit). This unique fruit is apple or pear like in appearance, though quite small and grown in bunches along Sorbus Domestia trees. It's uses are limited, and the fruit goes from unripe to rotten so quickly that it's rarely grown by orchardists. Get this fruit in the hands of the right cider maker, and an otherworldly treat ends up in your glass.
Tasting Notes: The Paturage Cormé is a rare opportunity to experience this fruit as a still (uncarbonated) wine, with aromatics and tasting notes unique to sorbs. Soft aromatics of sorbus, light pear, and melon. It drinks dry and full bodied, balanced by the alcohol. Nice mouthwatering acid, light on tannins. Very fresh and wine like, with tasting notes of sobs, melon, petrichor.
Purchase Now and Pre-Order Options: We will be ordering a very limited number of bottles of this cider every 6 or so months. It's quite expensive and we're unsure how much demand there might be for this cider. There are two purchase options: full price for a bottle from our current stock, and a discounted price to pre-order yourself bottle(s) as part of our next shipment (likely Jan/Feb 2027). Pre-Ordered bottles don't require shipping/delivery fees at checkout, we will work out the delivery costs upon arrival (e.g. you'll pay shipping later and can build an order around your special order bottles).
About Julien Thurel: Julien Thurel has been making foraged and organically farmed pear and apple ciders since 2012. He has devoted much time to researching local apple and pear varieties, selecting the ones best suited to his native clay, limestone and silex soils. A perfectionist and nativist, Julien is driven by a mission to find the best local varieties that would lead to delicate yet aromatically complex ciders worthy of aging. Julien specializes in rare, heirloom varieties of apple, pear and quince native to the Pays Gâtinnais and Sancerrois regions of the Loire region in France. Julien grafted and planted his orchard himself and while his pear trees and youngest apple trees mature, he continues to forage fruit from sites he has been studying for years. His orchard is certified organic and biodynamic. All his fruit is hand harvested, pressed in a high quality pneumatic press, and all the ciders are made in the Traditional Method (a.k.a. Method Champenoise). Some of the absolute best French Cider and Perry available in the U.S.
From the Loury in France - a small commune in the Loiret department, just northeast of Orléans. The Loiret is mostly composed of low-lying flatlands and takes its name from the Loiret River, a tributary of the Loire.
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale: Dry
- Tannins: Low
- Acidity: Medium Plus
- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Sorbus Domestica
- Features: Organic and No Sulfites Added
- ABV: %
- Format: 750 mL Bottle
- Shipping available across U.S.
- Low stock - 3 items left
- Inventory on the way
