Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Yamaoka. Estery, fruity aroma with banana, peach, cloves, but also some brighter fruit like pear or cherry. Very cloudy deep gold with a small head. Creamy weizen-like flavor, lots of banana, peach, a bit spicy, a slight tart edge. Very creamy, almost buttery, and malty. I cannot really tell what the champagne yeast is doing. Comes across as a weizen with a little more varied fruitiness than usual. Ok, but too sweet and doesn,t have the mouthfeel that "sparkling" seems to imply.