Zenne y Frontera (Season 18|19) Blend No. 96
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style Regular|
Score
8.23
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This Zenne y Frontera is a blend of two fine Oloroso barrels. This is a straight barrel-to-bottle lambic without the addition of any other lambic nor with the aim to let this continue to ferment. If it’s flat, it’s normal. If not, some magic happened meanwhile. 100% 3 Fonteinen. Only 614 bottles produced (minus the ones we tasted ourselves).
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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Low carb but plenty of fun flavors. More tart and sour than expected but spun into the tons of sherry notes wrapped in geuze funk.
Hapu, šerri, funky, puuviljane, täidlane, happeline ka, vaati ka. Hea. 4.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Taster from 0,75l bottle at Lambic O Droom. dark yellow lightly hazy color, small white head. smells sherry forward, oak, grassy, some funk, lovely smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes of sherry, citric, grassy, bit musty, peppery, spices. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of sherry, oak and peppery notes. very nice one, very good to drink.
9, 4, 8, 4,17
Nose: super pungent and sulfur. Palate: soft, low carbonation, syrupy lingering mouthfeel
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Bottle, 750 ml at Lambikodroom. Hazy orange with minimal white head. Funky, citric, barnyard, barrel. Medium sourness. Puckering.
Sour, soft, smooth. Sherry, wood, some stone fruit. Sweet, some funk, light. Very nice.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Pours darker yellow. Full on oloroso scent. Taste is full, intense oloroso, citrussy, funky. Amazing fusion. Perhaps lacking complexity in comparance to B1 and 2 , but certainly amongst the best of the series.
Yesterday
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
One of a series of new Zenne y Frontera blends, this one a blend of lambic that was aged on Oloroso barrels; I added it here the way it is presented by the brewery, but I guess the admins will have to find out which of the new Zennes need to be aliased into the same variant and which not. I took notes of all the variants I tasted at Lambik-O-Droom yesterday just to be on the safe side... This one produced a mousy, egg-white but quickly opening head (so this bottle at least was not flat like the brewery announces), over a misty deep pale orangey peach blonde robe. Strong and fascinating aroma of old dusty wooden boards, oloroso indeed, dried lemon peel, stale sweat, dried plums, grape skin, old jute bags, dry haystacks. Tart onset but very refreshingly so, minerally carbonation (soft but clearly there so again, this bottle has apparently developed carbon dioxide more than the brewery expected), lots of estery unripe plum and sour grape notes, vinous body; lovely bread-crusty, haystack-like core, strong woody tannins with drying-astringent but very quenching effect, lemony edges and Brett funkiness completing the picture along with a late 'old hop' bitter accent. The oloroso adds dryness, complexity and vinosity, with a very particular aroma that is hard to describe, but remains altogether more of a background feature in comparison with some other Zenne y Frontera editions. Nevertheless another superb 3 F lambic by all standards.