Cuvée 2017 - 2018 (Chardonnay)
Tommie Sjef Wild Ales in Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.48
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rami-pl (12989) ticked Cuvée (2017) from Tommie Sjef Wild Ales 6 years ago
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750ml bottle thanks to rich, pours out golden straw color topped with a white head. Nose is great grape notes funky attic barrel notes and some old wood. Taste is more of the nice tart grapes dusty basement barrel notes very complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
No head, hazy ochre-yellow beer. Horseblanket, lemon, limepeel, old grapes, Brettanomyces. Sourish with faint lemon, more Brett/wild yeasts. Finish has a serious lactic acid bite. Acidburn and -thinning. Pretty slick, low carbonation, refreshing. Another small gem.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
29/XI/19 - sample @ Billies Craft Beer Festival 2019, BB: n/a - (2019-1916) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!
Aroma: dirty, stinky feet, sweaty armpits, nailpolish. Wow, this is not good. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit fruity, unpleasant bitterness, dry, some tannins. Aftertaste: chemical, dry, burned rubber. Not enjoying this at all… Really bad stuff...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
8-3-7-4-15 Bottle, 1,5 years after bottling @ In De Wildeman, Amsterdam. Pours slightly hazy yellow, with a short lived rocky head. Aroma is tart notes of hay, wine grapes and sour candy, as well as bretty notes with apples, white berries and fruit peel. Medium body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is tart fruity notes of hay, wine grapes and sour candy, as well as citrus and grassy brett, farmyard and wooden barrels. Dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a slightly dirty light yellow color ale with a large foamy head. Aroma of sour notes with light funky notes is enticing. Taste is a mix of sour notes with light oak presence, subtle vinous notes with light acidic notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Enjoyable but not as complex as I was expecting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Corked bottle. Orange blonde color. Dominating chardonnay grapes, oak, Apple and citrus in the already fairly complex aroma and flavor. There is sourness, but not dominating. Tracés of grassy hops. Grapefruit. Gooseberries. Excellent, maybe magnificent in a few years. We’ll have to wait.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sour ale with white grapes (Chardonnay) by this highly acclaimed Dutch sour ale producer. Thanks to Hinke for sharing at Gents Bierfestival! Thin and open, loose, egg-white, bubbly, irregular head on a misty apricot blonde beer with deeper pale orangey tinge. Aroma of indeed dry and old white wine, musty grapes, stewed gooseberries, dusty attic, old lemon rind, yellow plums, grape peel, damp hay, wet oak wood, dry sherry. Estery onset, fruity with green kiwi, gooseberry and lime aspects but countered by a softening grapey sweetishness, softish carb, wheaty and cereally backbone dried by ongoing fruity and lactic tartness; woody tannins add complexity and a certain ‘dustiness’ to the finish, while the lime-like sourness and grape-like sweetness keep playing a game of contrast that keeps things fascinating till the end. Fantastic grape sour, wine-like but still with all the ‘deep’ and complex aspects of a barrelled sour, this is among the finest Tommie Sjefs I had so far. World class in its genre.