White wine barrel aged tripel made by Beavertown in collaboration with Alvinne, bottle from Gedeelde Vreugde. Irregularly lacing, eggshell-white, medium thick, moussy head over a misty orangey peach blonde beer. Aroma of peach juice, candied apricot, sweet ripe gooseberries, white grapes, sweet sherry or even white port wine, buttered bread, ginger, yoghurt, fresh cloves, pineapple, sweat, margarine. Fruity onset, pineapple and peach with a dash of banana, sweet with a potent tart undertone (as usual in wine barrel aged beers), drying and very white wine-like indeed, bit greasy and buttery, pleasantly smooth mouthfeel. Soft doughy malt sweet core, honeyish sweetness lingering yet becoming drier in the finish thanks to the wine tartness and the tannic effects of the wood; remains altogether juicy, with some herbal, earthy hop bitterishness, warming alcohol and the expected aftertaste of dry white wine. Alvinne's present day quality standard, which I think is a lot better and more to the point than in their earlier years, is very obvious here even if Beavertown is responsible for the initiative - and in what is essentially a Belgian style beer updated by the wine barrel aging, that is far from a bad thing. Not everybody likes wine barrel aged blonde Belgians, but I sure do and here the wine factor is, however strong, elegantly interwoven with the basic sweet tripel profile. Would love to taste this with a few years of age on it, too.