Here are some TNs on Norman drink from my CT archives.
The apple and pear are the source of Normandy's typical drinks, namely cider, perry and Calvados (apple brandy). I particularly love Calvados and here is a good example. I have another bottle, Roger Groult's Âge d'Or nearing its end and I guess that there will be a TN on it during the month.
NV Michèle Giard Calvados Pays d'Auge Hors d'Âge - France, Normandy, Calvados Pays d'Auge (5/24/2018)I write my notes on these spirits when I finish the bottle. This one has been a constant source of great satisfaction with its marriage of the fruit of a quite young Calva with the greater complexity, suavity and backbone of a more mature one. Also it should be commended for the low level of caramel notes which disfigure many when in excess. I will certainly be going back to this house for more. Very good.
AFAIK Gérard Samson's Les Arpents du Soleil is the only producer of wine in Normandy
http://www.arpents-du-soleil.com/ (French only). This is located on a south facing slope about half an hour from us. Samson recreated the vineyard on the site where vines flourished from the middle ages to the end of the 18th century. He claims that there is an unusual micro-climate and a very favourable soil type
(rendzine anthropique sur Bathonien supérieur). Here are some TNs on his offerings.
2014 Les Arpents du Soleil Rouge - France, Normandy (4/9/2018)This is my best bottle so far of the estate's Pinot Noir out of 5 (just 1 left) and it is indeed opening up on the nose and acquiring extra complexity and depth with a more velvety texture and obvious Pinosity. Rivalling a good entry level wine from a lighter Côte d'Or village and may still develop further. I must go down the road to get more or, failing that, some 2015 or 2016. Good+.
Posted from CellarTracker2013 Les Arpents du Soleil Mauve - France, Normandy (12/18/2016)I don't think that I would identify this bracing wine as PG in a blind line-up. There was some of the usual meat, nutmeg based spice and underlying roundness in this medium bodied dry wine but also minerals, lively acidity and salty spine. Quite different from the often opulent Alsatian examples but good.
2012 Les Arpents du Soleil Orange - France, Normandy (3/12/2017)A nice crisp dry white from Auxerrois but not great personality or QPR at €11 for 50cl. Better value to be had from, say, Muscadet, Mâconnais.....
There were also vineyards on les Coteaux d'Argences near Caen during the warm spell of the middle ages but no wine has been produced commercially there in recent centuries. Maybe global warming will result in a revival.