Clear Creek, 8 Year Old Oregon Apple Brandy 8 Years (700ml) SPAINCOUNT0821 Give it time

Give it time

while the finish is remarkably long and resonant

This is serious Burgundy: not flashy

Compared to Schaefer’s more structured Domprobst bottlings

Clear Creek, 8 Year Old Oregon Apple Brandy 8 Years (700ml) SPAINCOUNT0821 Give it timeOregon's answer to Calvados, and it's been sitting in oak for eight years. Steve McCarthy founded Clear Creek in Portland in 1985 on the conviction that America ought to be making fruit brandy the way the French do properly, patiently, from real fruit. This one is pot distilled from Oregon apples and then aged in oak for a full eight years, which is what takes it from bright and orchard fresh to something rounder, spicier and altogether more