Meerts au Viognier
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Series|
Score
7.21
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
0,375l bottle at home. Vintage 22/23. Bb 02.06.2028. yellow cloudy color, small white head. smells funky, citric, salty, lime. Nice to very nice smell, not overly complex. full body, soft carbonation. tastes citric, lime, lactic, earthy, salty, light grape notes, some tannins, light stone fruits. finishes light to medium dry and lightly sour with notes of lime, salt and citrus. Very nice one, a tad on the sour side but overall very refreshing.
8, 7.5, 8, 7, 8
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Meerts au Viognier from Gueuzerie Tilquin 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
One of four new Tilquin Meerts editions, sold together as a pack last year - and I heard a new pack is already on its way meanwhile so I should hurry catching up with this 2025 pack, I guess. This is the Viognier version, based on Tilquin's 'full' Viognier grape lambic. Medium sized, moussey, snow white, breaking and eventually dissolving head on a cloudy ochre-tinged peach-golden robe. Aroma of sour grape but also sweet white grape underneath, grape skin, yellow plum, gooseberry, unripe orange, wet wood, lemon pith, green apple, old leather, stewed rhubarb, grapefruit flesh, damp hay, stale sweat, freshly cut sorrel leaf, roses or spring blossoms (the flowery aspect of the Viognier grape, I imagine). Tart and evidently very fruity onset, from esters being amplified by actual fruit, lots of juicy grape tartness and brightness, even a touch of sweetishness, surrounded by gooseberry, plum and crabapple impressions; 'moelleux' mouthfeel, medium carbonated with minerally side notes, through a light bready core pierced by fruity lactic and grapey sourness, even a tad citric here and there. Some barnyard funk retronasally, rosey floral aspects from the Viognier remnants, woody tannins reinforced by grape skin tannins and a leathery Brett note grace a finish which is again more complex and refined than what one would expect based on how this is made - something it shares with most of the other Meerts lambics Tilquin produced so far. Rose petals, green apples, grapes and unripe citrus fruit abound, while the whole retains a pleasant, almost spring-like 'fraîcheur' and juiciness - the underlying sweet aspect of the Viognier rounding everything off ever so slightly. A little gem, like all of these Meerts editions.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Lightly hazy golden, thin white head. Aroma: Grape, funky. Taste: Grape, grapeskin, citrus, tannins, oak wood, horse blanket funk. Moderate tart. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Medium body, below average carbonation.