A French apple brandy produced in the Calvados region of Normandy, made by distilling cider and aging it in oak. It has flavors of baked apple, pear, vanilla, and warm spice.

A forgotten 1930s equal-parts stirrer of gin, apricot brandy, and Calvados that drinks lush, orchard-fruity, and faintly perfumed — more fruit-forward than its gin base suggests.

Angel Face

A cool-weather Boulevardier variation adding Calvados to the rye-Campari-vermouth base, drawing out apple, oak, and baking-spice notes that feel like a walk in foliage.

Autumn Leaves

An elegant Savoy two-ingredient equal-parts cocktail of Calvados and Dubonnet Rouge -- apple orchard meets French quinquina.

Bentley

A classic Normandy-inspired cocktail built on Calvados apple brandy, orange juice, orange liqueur, and bitters. Simple and fruit-forward, it showcases the apple character of Calvados against complementary orange notes.

Calvados Cocktail

A daiquiri template applied to Calvados, French apple brandy, in place of rum. The result is a crisp, fruit-forward sour with an autumnal apple character in place of the rum's tropical notes.

Calvados Daiquiri

Calvados apple brandy steps into the Manhattan format -- dried apple and pear notes blend with vermouth sweetness and bitters spice.

Calvados Manhattan

An autumnal Old Fashioned that substitutes Calvados for bourbon or rye — the French apple brandy's rich apple and barrel character shines in this classic format alongside demerara syrup and two types of bitters. One of the most compelling autumnal cocktails imaginable.

Calvados Old Fashioned

A Normandy-accented egg-white sour where baked-apple Calvados takes the whiskey's seat, framed by lemon and simple syrup for a frothy, orchard-forward pour.

Calvados Sour

The heavier of the Savoy's morning-after brothers, a stirred, spirit-forward mix of brandy, Calvados, and sweet vermouth built to resurrect the hard-drinking dead.

Corpse Reviver #1

The third Corpse Reviver from the Savoy -- equal parts brandy, Calvados, and sweet vermouth in a warming, spirit-forward morning restorative.

Corpse Reviver No. 3

A forgotten Savoy gem of Calvados, fresh grapefruit, and Swedish punch with a fruity, bitter-sweet character.

Diki Diki

An autumnal stirred cocktail built on Calvados — French apple brandy — with both vermouths and a Campari blush. Named for the season it evokes, with orchard fruit, bitter complexity, and the bittersweet mood of harvest time.

Fallen Leaves

A Prohibition-era classic of apple brandy, lime, and grenadine, named for its rose color and delivering a tart-sweet orchard snap around Calvados' woody apple core.

Jack Rose

A 1930s gin-and-apple-brandy sour stained rosy with grenadine and shaken silky with egg white, drinking frothy, fruity, and much sharper than its demure name suggests.

Pink Lady

A complex stirred cocktail from the Savoy Cocktail Book combining gin, sweet vermouth, Calvados, and yellow Chartreuse. Named after Savoy bartender Harry Craddock's wartime colleagues.

Warday's

An 1895 autumnal stirred drink of apple brandy layered with herbal yellow Chartreuse and honeyed Bénédictine, producing a lush, monastic complexity that suits the first cold nights.