Fruit saison with both wild yeast and champagne yeast, first tasted last year in the Wildeman in Amsterdam during Carnivale Brettanomyces and now re-rating from a 75 cl bottle. Lots of pressure during opening but no gushing. Dense, moussy, very stable, nicely lacing, yellowish egg-white head over a lightly hazy deep and pure golden coloured beer with light orangey hue and vivid sparkling, cloudy and deeper peach orange with deposit. Fruity, estery aroma with impressions of overripe pineapple, yellow plum, artisanal cider, wet leather (wild yeast effect), red apple peel, musty cellar, cava, green banana, acacia honey, vanilla, soap, gin, buttermilk, sour cream, some stale sweat but actually not disturbing, moldy pear, passion fruit, clove-like phenols, lemon zest, lots of damp hay, chamomille - in all, ’rustic’ and barnyard-like but in a friendly, aromatically fruity, appetizing way. Fruity, refreshing onset, a basket of passion fruit, apple, pineapple, white grape, gooseberry and peach, softly sweetish and crisply sourish going very well together with the latter providing a gentle ’fruit tart’ accent on top of full, supple, ’fluffy’, bready and (especially in the aftertaste) even lightly honeyish malt sweetness. Carbonation is lively but to the point for a saison and evidently calms down as the bottle progresses. Juicy finish, malty with persisting fruitiness, while a deep, late, earthy and lightly spicy hop bitterishness appears, as well as mildly cava- and cider-like retronasal aromas and an ’afterglow’ of warming, gin-like alcohol. A combination of pleasantly spicy, earthy and grapefruity hop bitterness (grape-like even - I’m guessing Nelson Sauvin) with something vaguely cava- or champagne-like linger after taking the last sip. This is a crisp, lively, warming, satisfying, earthy ’strong saison’ with just the right amount of barnyard funkiness positioned cleverly against a ton of bright ’yellow fruit’ esters; the alcohol is noticeable but stays well in place. In all very ’Belgian’ (even very tripel-like) and completely credible as a farmhouse ale, it has all the right characteristics in both looks and flavor to qualify as one, and one at a pretty high level, somewhere in the broad league of e.g. Dupont’s Bons Voeux, Fantôme Saison or several American strong farmouse ales. I expected a lot less from this based on the ’real’ sours I had from this brewery but this is, in all, very good.