Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien Grand Cru (2009) - Vin Jaune VJ2 Barrel
BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes) in Saignelégier, Jura, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Sour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production|
Score
7.33
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
1500 ml bottle courtesy of Victor (non-RB). Pours hazy orangish wooden brown with a small frothy offwhite head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sour and fruity with dark grapes, lemon juice, wood, plums, grapefruit juice, moist soil, balsamic vinegar, alcohol and lemon grass. Taste is tiny sweet, sour, fruity and metallic with dark grapes, plums, lemon juice, moist soil, wood, sheet metal, cereal, vinegar, grass and alcohol. Mouthfeel is round, slightly tart and medium bodied. Finish is sour and slightly tart with grapes, plums, lemon juice, grapefruit juice, hay, vinegar, wood and sheet metal.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared with others. Pours a hazy deep ruby amber with no head whatsoever. Aroma has a good amount of dry wine with sour fruits and a bit of backing sweet grains and funk. Flavor begins with sour fruits and a good amount of funk with acid and sweet grains.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
3750ml Bottle 2009 vintage VJ2. Pours out amber/orange with a ring of a head. Aroma was cherries, barnyard, lemon zest, oak, and some light grape. Taste was as the aroma with a good anount of oak and barnyard.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2009 vintage VJ2 bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a hazed copper body and no head. The aroma is packed with alcohol, fruity and a bit earthy. Very vinous. Flavors are vinous with hints of suntan lotion, cidery with alcohol. Somewhat smooth considering the ABV. No bubbles, a bit thin.