7

Ploomine, happeline, hapu, funky. Ok.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle shared at Liesse. Murky apricot/yellow pour with a white head. As it warms up huge plum bouquet. Sour with plum, but but not a purple plum rather a sweeter yellow plum, and stone fruit highlights. High acidity cuts through the barnyard and funk. Great body and mouthfeel. A home run!!

8.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, 750 ml at Liesse. Shared with Tin and Hrvoje. Hazy orange with medium white head. Juicy, fruity, plums, peaches, stone fruit, medium sourness. Very nice.

8.9

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Mirabelle plum lambic by Cantillon, only sold in two places in Brussels, one of which is the hip Liesse in Saint-Gilles, a sandwich bar with gastronomical ambitions. Had this one from a 75 cl bottle there. Snow white, medium thick but slowly opening and dissipating, moussy head, hazy apricot golden robe with warm peach-orange glow and lively sparkling, turning a bit murky and ochre-tinged in the end. Overpowering mirabelle plum (or cherry plum) in the nose, evoking yellow plums and ripe apricots alike, white grapes, ripe pineapple, gooseberry jam, even a whiff of ripe banana in the end, also stale sweat, urine, white yoghurt, lemon juice exposed to air for several days, stewed white celery. Crisp onset, bursting with ripe cherry plums, even to the point where a ‘plummy’, juicy sweetness acquires equal strength as the underlying lambic sourness; some stonefruit peel astringency too but very subtly so, lively and minerally carbonation, full and even somewhat creamy mouthfeel; a lactic sourness accompanies the middle, which nevertheless still remains filled with the sheer fleshiness of the fruit, over a bready core and increasing astringency from both fruit peel and oak wood. A notable funkiness is revealed in the finish, Bretty, but also a ‘dusty attic’ or old dusty books effect adding relief and depth. Juicy plum fruitiness, however, remains the key factor till the finish. Fantastic fruit lambic, as complex and radiant as it gets – the mirabelle plum, not a true plum but a closely related plant species, has never shined as brightly as in this one (and it has been used in lambic before) – except for, perhaps, in the childhood memories I cherish of my grandmother’s fruit garden.

7.8

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

0,75l from bottle at Liesse. Vintage 20. Yellow murky color, small white head. Smells very prominent plums, stone fruits, jammy, light peaches, very very nice smell. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes of plums, jammy, stone fruits, citric, grassy. Finishes light to medium sour with notes of plums, stone fruits and citric notes. This was served super cold, still, plums are super prominent. Actually, it gets super sore once it warms. Quite acidic, reminiscent of American sours, also quite clean. Hard to finish the whole bottle.

4.5,9,7,3,15

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle at Liesse. Pours a cloudy orange with small white head that lasts. The aroma is plum skin, floral, oak, funk, grape skin. Slick body, funky, plum, cheese, nice tartness, enjoyed this.

8

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