Speling van het Lot XIII.i - Vin Jaune
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Unblended Series|
Score
7.86
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Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen “Speling van het Lot” (Twist of Fate) is a series of small batch experimental brews, barrel maturations, fruit macerations and/or blends.On March 20th 2018, we filled two freshly emptied Vin Jaune barrels of Domaine Pignier with young 3 Fonteinen lambic. The lambic was brewed on March 16th 2017 and was 13 months old upon filling the two barrels. We let the lambic sit for another good year before we bottled seperately. As such, there are two batches of this unblended vin jaune lambic.Taste, savour and experience with the best of friends, old and new.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Lambic of a bit more than a year old, aged for a year more on vin jaune barrels. Two different barrels were used and the lambic (strangely) came out a bit differently from one batch to the other, so they were labelled as two different versions by the brewery. This first version, like the second, has no head, only some loose, white bubbles that dissolve instantly and completely, over an initially clear, deep yellow-glowing ‘old gold’ robe, turning misty with sediment. Stronger, more enticing aroma than the second version, more vin jaune, dry white wine, grape skin, turmeric, damp earth, egg yolk, crabapple, old dry sherry, dry wood, haystack, walnut, minerals. Dry, lactic onset, fruity notes of grape skin, apple peel and unripe peach, flat carbonation, vinous, supple body. White-bread-crusty core penetrated by lactic lambic tartness and, increasingly so towards the end, the vin jaune effect, manifesting itself as an oxidized old dry sherry element, woody tannins, walnut skin and shell associations, tied together by a vague bitterish touch of very deepy buried hops, as it ought to be in lambic. Obviously very similar to the second one, but it seems more important to stress the differences here, considering that the process and ingredients were exactly the same; this first version had a more intense nose, clearly distinct from the more sedate and soft nose of the second one, with more of the expected vin jaune effect. If this is 3 Fonteinen’s first attempt at ‘vin jaune lambic’ like Cantillon has done before, then the road to an absolute masterpiece in the range of Cantillon’s La Vie Est Belge cannot be that long…