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Crafted from fifteen ingredients — some kept secret — and distilled in a traditional Calvados column still. Born of the vision of a creative, forward-looking man who left a promising career in finance in the United States to reinvent the story of the family distillery in Normandy.
A creative and exploratory expression, offering an intimate and authentic experience of gin. Three convictions, held without compromise.
The rule is not to follow the rule.
No standardized flavors. No borrowed formulas. Each composition is the result of a choice — sometimes against the category's conventional wisdom, almost always against the easy way out.
A taste is only as good as its origin.
Fifteen ingredients. Juniper from selected sources, dried apple drawn by the Calvados column itself, candied orange from the growers of southern Spain, and a carefully chosen set of spices — some of which remain the author's secret.
We take the gin very seriously. Ourselves, a little less.
A family distillery, a keen eye for detail, a taste for generous tables and long evenings. We'd rather make something honest than something impressive — although, on good days, it happens to be both.
What makes Normindia Normindia is not only what goes into it, but how it's pulled out. The method is a rarity in gin: a traditional Calvados column still, patiently pressed into service for a different kind of distillation.
Eight to fifteen botanical ingredients are gathered, including: apple, orange, juniper, coriander, cinnamon sticks, clove, ginger, lily, pink grapefruit, lemon — and some other botanicals whose names stay in the laboratory.
The botanicals are macerated together in French wheat alcohol. The spices settle into the juniper; the juniper learns the orange; the orange meets the apple. The composition begins before the fire is ever lit.
The macerate is distilled in a traditional Calvados column still — the same apparatus the domaine has used on apples for decades. Its memory of apple gives Normindia its unmistakable signature: a faint, dry orchard note woven through the gin's spine.
The gin rests before being bottled at the distillery. The result is what the author was looking for: a bold, expressive nose, a smooth and rounded mouthfeel, a finish that takes its time.
The original recipe is the heart of the range. It sets the tone for the collection. Around it we have developed four complementary and singular expressions — aged, fruited, cleansed, recomposed. Each one honors the vision, the precision, and the singularity of Normindia.
The original recipe. A bold nose, a mouth rounded on the fruit, a long, warm finish with the softness of spice.
The original recipe, rested six months in Coquerel Calvados casks. Deeper, riper, more structured.
An edition that puts grapefruit centre stage, revealing all of its freshness and exuberance. A perfect balance between the freshness of juniper and the fruit.
Normindia Orange unfolds, with sustained intensity, all the fruit and the bite of orange and citrus — woven through the freshness of juniper and the spices of Normindia.
A recipe that completes the Normindia range perfectly, in a classic style close to a London Dry — with fresh, citrus notes throughout.
Juniper arrives first — clean, bold, precise. Then dried apple, a touch of candied orange, and soft, quiet spices that settle in gradually and carry the tasting forward.
A generous, perfectly balanced mouth. The candied orange brings freshness and a fine bitterness; the spices stretch the mid-palate; the apple gives the whole its structure and its equilibrium.
Generous and warm, with a discreet complexity. The spices linger delicately on the palate, a singular tasting experience. A gin made for conversation — and for the silence that follows.
Serve neat. Serve with tonic. Serve at a large table, with people you want to keep at it.
Normindia is a gin for large tables, long festive evenings, and conversations you want to last. Three ways to serve it — bound by a single rule: always well chilled.
For the daylight hours
The Gin & Tonic appeared in the 19th century, within the British Empire, when soldiers and colonials mixed gin with tonic water — whose quinine, then, was used to prevent malaria. To make the medicine easier to drink, they added gin, sometimes lemon or lime. Over time, the mixture became one of the most celebrated cocktails in the world. Today, the Gin & Tonic is prized for its freshness, its simplicity, and its ability to bring out the gin's aromatics — an aperitif classic, unchallenged.
When the evening turns
The Negroni is an emblematic Italian cocktail, created around 1919 in Florence when Count Camillo Negroni asked his bartender to stiffen his Americano by replacing the soda water with gin. The drink is then built on equal parts of gin, red vermouth, and Campari — a singular balance of bitterness, sweetness, and aromatic complexity. Now an international classic, the Negroni is among the most influential cocktails in the world, endlessly reinterpreted by bartenders everywhere.
Before dinner, not at it
The Martini is one of the most iconic cocktails in the world, emerging in the late 19th century in the United States. Traditionally built on gin and vermouth, and served with an olive or a lemon zest. Simple and elegant, the Martini has come to stand for refinement and sophistication, inspiring countless modern variations while remaining a timeless classic of bars the world over.
Domaine du Coquerel
1937
Normandy · France
Domaine du Coquerel has been producing Calvados since 1937. Three generations have followed one another — around the same orchards, the same savoir-faire, the same passion. When Pierre took over the estate, he did not seek to transform the house: he added a space apart, a creative laboratory.
A few hours from Paris, this place has become a ground for experimentation. Here you cross paths with aromaticians, œnologists, artisans, designers, cultural figures — encounters Pierre gathers the way others compose a collection. Together they test, search, sometimes err — and often discover. From these trials, Normindia is born, in its truest, purest form.
Normindia is bottled in limited quantity and distributed through a small number of importers and specialist venues. If you are a buyer, a distributor, a bar that takes gin seriously — or doesn't take itself too seriously — we would be glad to hear from you.