Grand Cru #003 - Kriek Wine
Ninkasi in Tarare, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 🇫🇷
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6.75
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Behind its ruby body and fine pink head, lie woody wine and cherry notes that come courtesy of local Bessenay cherries, and cold-aging in Morgon wine casks.
Sharp and delicate, and with a generous alcohol content, this Grand Cru is another candidate for cellar-aging, with a flavour profile that will improve with the years.
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mike_77 (15884) reviewed Grand Cru #003 - Kriek Wine from Ninkasi 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
8.1% - Light brown colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a jammy sweetness. Not so much cherry pit more sweet cherry flesh.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Grand Cru #003 - Kriek Wine from Ninkasi 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cherry-flavoured barley wine (an attempt at creating a new style it seems - 'kriek wine') aged in wine barrels; thanks tderoeck for sharing. Medium thick, off-white, stable, mousy head leaving a membrane of lacing over a cloudy, brownish-tinged deep amber-red beer with protein flakes whirling through. Aroma of honey, sweet rosé wine, sweet cherry jam (not in the industrial way, luckily), old oxidized port wine, sweet rhubarb stew, cooked apple, sugar loaf, wet oak wood indeed. Sweet and sourish onset, more grapey and peachy than cherry-like but a sweet juicy cherry flavour is certainly there, even paired with something reminiscent of strawberry; fizzy carb, full bready malt base, sweetish with ongoing fruitiness from cherry, but also grape- and sweet apple-like. Oaky accents in the end but not overly so, signs of oxidation are more obvious even, followed by a vaguely port-like sweet alcohol warmth, even if the alcohol effect as such remains well masked and well positioned seen the ABV. Sweetness lingers for too long, becoming tiresome and sticky in the end - my biggest issue with this otherwise admittedly interesting creation. Would have been much better with less sweetness, but in any case motivating to go out and find the regular Grand Cru version.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Grand Cru #003 - Kriek Wine from Ninkasi 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
19/VII/20 - 75cl bottle as “Ninkasi Gran Cru 2017 #003”, shared @ home, BB: n/a (2020-655)
Pretty cloudy dark amber beer, small creamy dense off-white to beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of gluhwein going on here, alcohol, orange peel, sweet cherries, fruity, oxidized, ripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: ripe banana up front, fruity, cherries, banana bread, alcohol, sweet bit malty, meh. Not super great, it smelled much better. Aftertaste: more ripe banana, sugary, fruity, some cherry flavoured candy, hint of yoghurt, cherry jam, sweet and sugary finish.
Ungstrup (52101) reviewed Grand Cru #003 - Kriek Wine from Ninkasi 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A pale red beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of cherries, malt, fruit, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of cherries, malt, fruit, and alcohol, leading to a dry finish.