0,75l at the Lambic-o-droom. Amber cloudy color, small white head. Smells grapes, vinous, spices, grassy, spices. Very nice smell, bit heavy. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes very fragrent, spices, vinous, stone fruits, plums, bit lactic. Finishes dry light to medium sour with notes of vinous notes, stone fruits and grassy notes. Very good stuff, heavy but good complexity

8, 9, 9, 8, 9

Viinamarjane, hapu, magus, veinine, alks. Hea.

Bottle Droom. Darker golden. Lots of sweet and spicy grapes, wheat, light oak, dry funk, dry grape skins, a touch of alcohol. Medium sweet and sour. Full bodied with sparkly carbonation. Very tasty, but a bit high in alcohol maybe.

Created around the same time as Tilquin’s Gewürztraminer grape lambic, here is 3 Fonteinen’s interpretation of the same idea, with the profit generated by these bottles being donated to charity (as is the case with that ‘Lambic.info’ bottle – a good enough reason to order this bottle first at the Open Beer Days last weekend. Snow white, medium thick, open but stable ring-shaped head over a deep, hazy orangey-peach robe, turning increasingly cloudy and beige-hued as the bottle is gradually emptied. In the nose, something bizarre happens: at first a lovely bouquet of strong Gewürztraminer producing associations of lychee, yellow kiwi and strawberry (just like in Tilquin Oude Gewürtz), but in the second glass from the exact same bottle, a weird and strong aroma of burnt rubber and old care tyre appears, recurring in later pours from still the same bottle but luckily fading away quickly too, releasing the fruity and somewhat exotic Gewürztraminer again, now surrounded by lambic associations of sorrel, raw red cabbage, sweet sherry, cooked plum, calvados (indeed this fruit lambic exceeds 10% ABV!), yoghurt and something lightly soapy. Very fruity, juicy Gewürztraminer in the mouth, grapes galore, accents if lychee and kiwi again, crisply sour lemony edge and underlying lactic tartness throughout, softly tingling fizz, full body; bread-crusty and almost peanutty aspects, probably a combination of malts, yeast and grape seeds, echo in the background while this vinous ‘grapeyness’ develops, with increasingly strong grape skin and grape seed tannins, eventually overruling that exotic fruitiness. Lactic sourness from the lambic comes to the foreground in the finish, as well as woodiness, a weird, volatile and brief retronasal whiff of carraway seed somehow, and this warming, calvados- or sherry-like alcohol glow. Very distinct, almost spectacular nose, equally unusual and surprising as Tilquin Oude Gewürzt – it seems this particular grape cépage has a lot in store, so I cannot wait for others in the lambic world to start experimenting with it; a bit of a rollercoaster with ups and downs, in all, but in being so interestingly varied from within one single bottle, quite unique and complex as well. The high alcohol content surprised me too: I had a few superstrong lambics before (3 Fonteinen’s own “De Langste Kook” and Cantillon’s LHD) but those did not completely convince me – after this one though, I am beginning to doubt my own conviction that lambic does not perform well at 10%+ ABV values… In short: a highly fascinating grape lambic with a sulfuric and rubbery aspect that goes away and then comes again – I have difficulties even rating this one for that reason.

Bottle at Humus x Hortense 3F Dinner. Pours a cloudy orange with no head. The aroma is strong grape must, funk, oak, barnyard, citrus. Slick body, grape skin, funk, oak, boozy, nice sweetness, very wine forward, enjoyed this.

Nose: super mineral, stinky cheese. Palate: sweet dank grapes, low/mid carbonation, sweet finish

Bottle, 750 ml at Lambikodroom. Shared with Miro B, Hrvoje, and Miro. Hazy orange, white head. Grapes, sweetish, vinous, medium sourness. Soft texture. Medium bodied. --- Beer merged from original tick of Speling van het Lot - Druif: Gewürztraminer on 21 Mar 2024 at 05:44 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5. Original review text: Bottle, 750 ml, courtesy of kajser27. Hazy orange with small white head. Funky and fruity, lots of grapes, vinous, some citrus notes.