Pours a clear, pale lemon. Small to no head. Scent is very funky, petrol, harsh, tad herbal. Taste is full, tart, herbal, petrol, sharp acidity, burnt rubber (typical for a riesling, but exceptionally present here) medium body, medium high carbo. Dry, higher acidity. Woody.

LKBW22. Bottle. Hazy golden, medium head. Funky aroma, apricot, orange, white grapes, goaty, carboard. Fruity flavour, sitrusy and stone fruit dominate. Soft texture, oily, moderate sourness.

Bottle, LKBW. Slightly hazy amber, smaller white head, nonlasting. Smelly rubbery nose, wine - not unpleasant though. Modertely vinous, not too sour, tart finish. Light body. Not bad.

I lost count of how many of these Twist of Fate 3 Fonteinen has churned out meanwhile but they remain as exciting as ever; it was only a matter of time before Riesling grapes would make their appearance I guess, this time harvested from an organic Riesling farmer in Germany. Thanks Bart! Open, snow white, moussy ‘ring’ on an initially clear, warm apricot-golden beer turning misty and more peachy-orangey with sediment. Aroma initially with quite some ‘puttekenslucht’ (sewer water, rotting plant material) but this fades gradually, making room for much more flattering impressions of grape skins, grape seed oil, damp haystack, mown lawn, farmland, wet clay, cheese rind, green weeds and eventually – warming up – sweet fruity notes, but more reminiscent of peach and white raspberry than actual grapes. Colourful, quite intense onset, juicy white grapes now much more apparent, whitecurrant, hard pear and even unripe pineapple somewhere, very vividly carbonated in a crisp, ‘crystalline’ way; rounded, bit vinous mouthfeel, bready core buried under layers of lactic and other sourness, white fruit sweet-and-sourness, minerality and tannic effects of both wood and grape skins. The grape flesh maintains a juicy aspect, but not as much so as in many other grape lambics I had – even in comparison with the only other Riesling lambic that springs to mind, Tilquin Oude Riesling à l’Ancienne, which I recall was juicier, softer and fleshier. That said, this 3 Fonteinen interpretation is still an interesting, multi-sided lambic worth trying – I can even forgive that ‘putteke’ aspect from the beginning.

Pours unclear, darker muddy blonde. Scent is full, funky, brett, dry, oak. Natural wine-like. Not as smooth as I had hoped. Taste is full, chewy grapes, natural wine like again (brett, sharp) . I had higher expectations of this one. Far less balances and refined than the Tilquin version (and I usually strongly prefer 3F over Tilquin) . Very robust, raw, green, earthy.