Tamworth’s VSOP Bottled in Bond apple brandy is a deeply complex distillate ... a better-known name like Laird’s, or a classic Calvados producer like Boulard or Camut, apple-based spirits ...

There was a time that was all we had, but that time is over. Laird’s makes a 100 proof “bonded” apple brandy, and a newer, 86 proof “Applejack” that’s 100 percent apple brandy.