Experimental Fruit Series #2 - Pinot Noir - Draft Version
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Special|
Score
7.76
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Zacht, mooi zuurtje, druif, fris, hout, lekker spul
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Hazy orange red with a white head. Aroma of oak, vinous notes, fruits and a lovely dry funk. Flavour is moderate sour. Medium bodied with light prickly carbonation.
A little high on the carbonation, but some swirling fixed that. Loads of grape, giving flavour and some sweetness. Balanced well with the sour, very dry lambic beneath it, and the oak. Nicely funky, refreshing, and flavourful.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours reddish amber, small white head. Smell is very fruity, mild. Taste is sharp, intense, tart. Very dry, funky, red grapes and grapeskins. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tilquin’s Pinot Noir in its ‘pure’, unblended draught form (the equivalent of Mûre Draft and Quetsche Draft), tasted at Tilquin’s tasting room during their open days last weekend. Off-white, mousy, regular head, hazy deep amberish-red to vermillion robe, less actually red than expected. Aroma of full-bodied and creamy but dry red wine, grape juice, red currant, unripe plum, lemon rind, roses, sour apples. Very fruity, softly sour and grapey but not too strongly so, with more ‘purely’ lambic notes of unripe plum and gooseberry, fizzy carb (apparently the grapes have sparked a refermentation in the cask), drying lactic and fruit-acidic sourness throughout with a sour grape and lightly astringent grape peel effect accentuating it. Grape skin tannins and light earthiness and woodiness in the finish, but generally remaining juicy. Grapey alright, but not as expressively so as I was expecting; still a very pleasant, easily drinkable, slender and elegant fruit lambic, but as usual, I prefer the ‘finished’, bottle–conditioned equivalent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Tilquin. Pours a hazy ruby orange with medium frothy white head. The aroma is funk, berry, oak. Thin body, blackberry, light funk, nice tartness, light dryness, very nice.