Zenne y Frontera (Season 18|19) Blend No. 92
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style Regular|
Score
8.07
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This Zenne y Frontera is a blend of eleven different sherry barrels - ten Oloroso barrels and one Amontillado barrel. The Oloroso bar-rels were more than fourty years old. The lambics originate from four different brews and were all a good year old when filling the sherry barrels. Accordingly, the weighted average age upon bottling was a tad more than 25 months. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
NL 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is een unieke creatie van Armand Debelder en maître-sommelier Andy De Brouwer. Dit natuurlijke millésime bier is een assemblage van jonge traditionele lambikken die verder gerust hebben op veertig jarige en oudere authentieke Oloroso, Amontillado en/of Pedro Ximé-nez sherryvaten. Zenne y Frontera is de perfecte symbiose van enkele koppige karakters, vele wilde ideeën, immens fijne aroma’s en twee mooie streken!EN 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is a unique creation of Armand Debelder and maître-sommelier Andy De Brouwer. This natural millésime beer is a blend of young traditional lambics that have aged on forty-year-and-older authentic Oloroso, Amontillado and/or Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. Zenne y Frontera is the perfect symbiosis of a few stubborn characters, a lot of wild ideas, a vast palette of aromas and two beautiful regions!
NL 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is een unieke creatie van Armand Debelder en maître-sommelier Andy De Brouwer. Dit natuurlijke millésime bier is een assemblage van jonge traditionele lambikken die verder gerust hebben op veertig jarige en oudere authentieke Oloroso, Amontillado en/of Pedro Ximé-nez sherryvaten. Zenne y Frontera is de perfecte symbiose van enkele koppige karakters, vele wilde ideeën, immens fijne aroma’s en twee mooie streken!EN 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is a unique creation of Armand Debelder and maître-sommelier Andy De Brouwer. This natural millésime beer is a blend of young traditional lambics that have aged on forty-year-and-older authentic Oloroso, Amontillado and/or Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. Zenne y Frontera is the perfect symbiosis of a few stubborn characters, a lot of wild ideas, a vast palette of aromas and two beautiful regions!
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Pours unclear blonde, smell is full, mild sherry, more oak. Taste is sharp, acidic, mild acetic. Dry, mild sherry - yet recognizable. Very oaky.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2020
at 10:57
8/10
Yesterday
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2020
at 23:23
7.5/10
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from Bottle
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Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom
on 07 Sep 2020
at 19:34
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Another new Zenne y Frontera variant, containing lambic that came from eleven different sherry barrels, mostly Oloroso but also one Amontillado - so conceptually very close to Blend 94, which may perhaps be considered an alias of this one by consequence. Snow white, irregularly edged, creamy but open head, misty pale orangey 'old gold' robe, looking more or less the same as Blend 94. Aroma of grass silage, lightly toasted pine nuts, dry wood, haystacks, dry sherry indeed, green apple, dried old lemon peel, gooseberry, vague whiffs of tobacco and dried herbs but less outspoken than in the other new Zenne y Frontera blends. Crisp, tart onset, green apple and unripe apricot impressions, fizzy carbonation over a pleasantly bread-crusty, lightly nutty core, dried by lots of lemony and lactic sourness, with a wry, unripe stonefruit-like side to it; ends very dry, quenching and tannic, astringent and lemony even, but again the sherry effects are minimal and reduced to faint background herbalness and nuttiness. The least sherry-coloured one of all the new Zenne y Frontera variants, but nicely crisp and dry and in every sense of the word a 'geuze' of top quality - though I did not expect anything less.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2020
at 14:10
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Oak And sherry in the aroma. Lemon, grapefruit, grapes, oak, sherry And a hint of vanilla in the flavor. Moderately Sour, very complex
Tried
on 05 Sep 2020
at 18:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
5/IX/20 - 75cl bottle @ 3 Fonteinen Lambik-o-Droom (Lot, BE), BB: 26/X/39, bottled: 24/VII/19 (2020-867) Thanks to ElManana+1 for driving and sharing today’s beers, thanks to the Ghent Beer Posse for sharing the 3F bottles!
Cloudy orange to beige beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit oxidized, cellar, musty, pretty oxidized, fruity notes, some apricots. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty sourish, lemony, some tropical fruits, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: oxidized, bitter touch, bit fruity, vinegar, sweet touch, very fruity.
Cloudy orange to beige beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit oxidized, cellar, musty, pretty oxidized, fruity notes, some apricots. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty sourish, lemony, some tropical fruits, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: oxidized, bitter touch, bit fruity, vinegar, sweet touch, very fruity.
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from Bottle
at
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom
on 05 Sep 2020
at 15:45
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle shared at OBD. Bit hazy golden with white head. Massive nose of sherry and walnuts. Woody, soft grains, wet funk, more sherry, dry and oxidized, brandy, almonds. Solid medium sweet, medium sour. Solid medium bodied with sparkly carbonation. Love, tons of sherry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2020
at 12:54
8.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 9
Hazy golden with it’s an off white head. Aroma of rich oak, oxidized sherry, vanilla, citrus and green apple behind. Flavour is moderate sweet and sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
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from Bottle
at
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom
on 04 Sep 2020
at 12:52