Lou Pepe Gueuze
Brasserie Cantillon in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Winter|
Score
8.09
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The Lou Pepe Gueuze is a blend of three different 2-year-old lambics. The standard Cantillon Gueuze is a blend of 1,2, and 3-year-olds. The inclusion of the younger lambic (which still has some unfermented sugars in it) sparks a refermentation in the bottle that gives Gueuze its famous champagne-like spritziness. The simple idea behind the special Lou Pepe blend is that it should have much more of the taste of old lambic, which is of course much harder, drier, more sour, and more complex than the young stuff. (Though 3-year-olds are generally more complex than 2-year-olds, it's not necessarily so; the 2-year-olds used in this instance have as much character as most 3-year-olds.) This being Gueuze, it has to be spritzy, so the brewery opted for the same method used in conditioning champagne: everyday refined sugar is dissolved in water and added to cause a refermentation. The sugar ferments out completely, so there is no residual sweetness, which Jean-Pierre famously detests.
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9.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Просто эталон Гёзе. Невероятный аромат, хоть и весьма простой. Просто разное сено с деревом. Во вкусе добавляется цитурсовая нотка. Нереальный баланс и простота.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2026
at 22:11
9/10
Cherry, tart and funky
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2025
at 23:01
7/10
Hapu, päris mõru, funky, väga kuiv, tsitrus. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2025
at 16:20
8.8/10
LCI. Lemon tartness, Apple funk, elegant layering. Super good now, will keep developing I think
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2025
at 00:50
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Dirty brown color. Light lacing. Amazing nose of barnyard. Leather, oak, iron and hay. Definitely some oxidation but it works so well. Tart, leather oxidation tons of barnyard and cobwebs. Super tart. Superb long tart finish with the oak continuing
Tried
on 10 Jun 2025
at 13:25
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Golden color. Beautiful nose of horse blanket barnyard and cognac that is so complex and amazing. The barrel adds this perfect
Tried
on 27 May 2025
at 06:28
8.6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2025
at 19:59
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cloudy, thick head. Aroma is leather, earthy. Soft, sweet, nice pear, peach accents. Sweet and mellow, refined, only mild wildness. Very good.
Tried
on 10 May 2025
at 20:05
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
750mL bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Nice barnyard on the nose. Flavour is dry, slightly acidic. Nice complexity, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Moeder Lambic Fontainas
on 29 Apr 2025
at 20:00
8/10
Tart, funky and complex with some farmyardy yeastiness and sourness, mild sourness and earthiness. Balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2025
at 19:59