Bottle, courtesy of SinH4. Soft fruit flavours over lambic taste, woven in very well throughout. Tart and slightly funky, gets quite sour towards the finish. Complex and nice, but a bit too much vinegar on the palate. Nice, but not overwhelming.

750ml bottle shared with myself, 12th March 16. Pours a beautiful orange pink, like a Rose wine. Aroma is classic lambic, tart fruit, berries, cellar, funk. Taste is multilayered and complex, dry and tart for sure, gooseberry skin, cherry stone, funk, cellar dampness, wet wood barrel, sour lingering finish. An elegant well executed and delicious lambic. Excellent

Bottle from Craigs, dregs run tasting. Pours amber with a thin white head. Aromas of funk, sour fruit. Taste is tart, fruity, sour raspberry on the finish.

Beautiful orange-reddish color (rosé?) with white head. Aroma is lambic funk, very fruity, all sorts of fruits: Cherry, gooseberries and blackberries all present. Some mustard, but sweet mustard, like Feigensenf. Taste is lactic tartness, interwoven with the intense fruit aromas, some leather, so much going on, more of this cheesy barnyard feeling and a dry finish. Carbonation is not too aggressive, just enough to get some kick in there. With decanting, the fruits develop some more, the carb settles down and it becomes even better. Quite sour, but with an amazing balance with the fruits. Absolutely beautiful. A lambic masterpiece.

Botella, @BierCaB, Barcelona. 13/11/2015. Bottled: 08/2013 Color rojizo, sabor agrio, amargo, frutal, muy rica.

Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours a hazy pink with small off white head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong berry, funk, wood. Thin mouth, very sour, berries, funk, oak, really enjoyed this one.

Special fruit lambic from De Oude Cam with yellow gooseberries, sour cherries and brambleberries; started off as an experiment some years ago, but has fortunately been kept in production, though it is still limited and harder to find than other De Cam lambics. Loose, ’dirty pinkish’, irregular head thinning out rapidly and eventually all but disappearing; beautiful pure vermillion colour, lightly hazy with little fizz. Looks like a glass of rosé wine after a while. Strong but elegant lambic nose, extremely fruity as was to be expected; I get mostly the sour cherries, but other aromas indeed indicate that there is more going on in this. The brambleberries are more or less recognizable and so are the gooseberries, but it takes a lot of concentration to separate them from one another. This wealth of fruit is soaked in lovely lambic funkiness, fresh rhubarb, very old sherry, wet leather, raspberry vinegar, wet wood, hay, sour cream, lemon juice, rosé champagne, earth, barnyard, old sweat. Crisp onset of puckering sour cherry and lambic acidity, lemony but still relatively softly so (especially when compared to most other De Cam lambics), becoming more and more mild and sedate as the liquid travels through the mouth, ending in a (very) drying lactic tartness rather than sharp lemon acidity; in between, the brambleberries are clearly there, more so than in the aroma, but the gooseberries remain relatively silent and hard to distinguish from gooseberry-like lambic esters on the one hand and the two other fruits on the other hand. A deep wheaty breadiness supports the whole; the mouthfeel is softly carbonated, like a red lambrusco, with a supple smoothness to it. The berries return retronasally and the finish reveals a deep, mild but explicit, earthy bitterishness of old hops providing the expected balance and structure along with drying wood tannins. In all, a feast of authentic lambic artistry and fresh fruit, no strings attached, honest, very elegant, very rich and generous and surprisingly (but still very relatively!) mellow compared to, for instance, De Cam Oude Kriek. Apart from the gooseberries, which are hard to pull out in both aroma and taste, the fruits are well-balanced against each other, I had expected the sour cherries to be more dominant over the brambleberries. Another artisanal ’spontaneous’ masterpiece from the Senne valley.