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In the 60’s, Christian Drouin senior became the owner of the Fiefs Sainte-Anne, near Honfleur. The farm was planted with cider-apple trees and Christian was soon seized by the desire to produce his own Calvados. The resulting Calvados was set aside to age in former Sherry, Port or Calvados casks stored in the old halftimbered outbuildings of the farm. He also acquired several batches of very old Calvados when the estates of some reputed producers were sold. Christian Drouin senior won his first medals. In 1969 Christian Drouin junior who was fascinated by the art of aging and, with the benefit of the stocks produced by his father, specialized in the production of the rarest and oldest Calvados that he was soon delivering to the world’s great hotels and finest restaurants. In 1991–92, production has been transferred to another 17th-century farm in Coudray-Rabut near Pont l’Evèque. Today the blends are still created jointly by Christian and his son, Guillaume Drouin.