Dégustée le 2020-08-31 chez BRASSERIE DUNHAM. .

(750ml swing-top bottle from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours moderately hazy bright gold with almost no head. Notes of nice softly tart baking apples with a rich, floral and clearly tannic aspect from the Hyslop varietal, nice apple skin qualities, acidity is largely apple/lactic but with a bare hint of acetic, moderate Brett funk, balance is moderately tart and very lightly sweet with good tannic drydown leading to moderate bitterness in the long, flavourful finish with some minerality from the amphora helping to keep things crisp. Medium bodied with moderate but very filling effervescent carbonation. I liked this one better than the Dolgo, perhaps because the characteristics of the focal varietal are more prominent despite the majority being 'typical' apples. Very nicely made!