Pet Bière Merlot
(has 2 batches)

0,75l from bottle at Gebrande Winning. Vintage 2020. Dark red / prupleish color, small pink head. Smells red grapes, tannins, marzipan, oak, lovely smell. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes grapes, red wine, tannins, oak, marzipan. Finishes lightly sour with notes red grapes, tannins and light oak notes.very nice one, very elegant.

9,4.5, 9, 4.5, 18

Grape lambic by highly elusive Bofkont, sample at Wild in Groningen. Thin, loose and open, pale pinkish-white 'head' on a deep ruby red beer, bit misty, with even deeper wine red glow in its core. Aroma of ripe Merlot grapes indeed and a lot of them, bread pulp, red apple, stale sweaty note, strawberry yoghurt, rosé wine. Very fruity onset, lots and lots of fleshy ripe 'grapeyness', even with a fructose-sweetish core; softish carbonation, red apple and strawberry accents over a supple bready core dried gently by ongoing, sedate lactic tartness, nowhere becoming too puckering. Some grape skin and wood tannins in the end, a bit astringent but providing balance against that grape juiciness; light undertone of (old hop) bitterness in the end, but never losing that vinous juiciness. Beautiful grape lambic, soft, elegant and packed with flavour, it is not hard to see why these Bofkont bottles are so coveted.

Interesting, quite different from the Dornfelder. This is less smokey, more licoricy somehow. Dropfruitduo. Grapes are quite pronounced, giving a nice sweetness to go with the medium sour base. Nice balance, very tasty.

magnum

Pours very dark pinkred. Small white-pink head. Smell is rich, fruity, grapes, cherry, mild peppery. Taste is full, highly carbonated. Mild funk. intense grapes, juicy red fruits. assertive, yet mellow tartness. Nice, full, fruit-forward lambic.

MBCC 2021. Big boy pour!