At Ferme de L’Yonnière, Jérôme harvests 15 hectares of high-tree orchards in which all fruit is hand-picked.
His fruit trees are indigneous varities that are surrounded by pastures and Normandy cows. Most of his trees are 200 years old or older and all fruit is hand picked from the ground, ensuring that only ripe fruit is collected.
Only local varieties of apple and/or pear are used. Natural fermentation is via the ambient/indigenous yeast from the trees & pasture. This natural fermentation tends to work very slowly allowing for a lot of flavor to develop. The sparkle comes naturally from a second in-bottle fermentation. Jérôme does not use any chemicals in his pasture or in his cidery. No sulfur are added at any time so all sulfites are naturally occurring.
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