Bottle at Bernie's Brugge. Gold orange colour lasting off white head. Some esters. Some softness in the mouth. Decent enough blond beer. Bit fizzy. OK standard blond.

Bottle from a quiz prize.
A: clear amber, small, off-white head.
A: plum, unripe red apple, fruit cake, sherry, wood.
T: sweetish plum, sourish berry, biscuit, sherry.
F: herbal hops, wet wood, warming (old) white wine- or sherry-like alcohol.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Not really successful in the Chardonnay department, and not really a Tripel anyway. Okay.

A fairly recent addition to the Eastern Flemish beer scene, this beer tries to connect beer to wine and is effectively a tripel infused with white wine, produced in BeerSelect’s kettles in commission of the creator, located in Assenede (in the Meetjesland region northwest of Ghent). Bottle at Café ‘t Schoon Zicht in Mariakerke, cheers Gido! Snow white, frothy and thick, bubbly, stable head over an initially clear, orange-glowing deep golden beer with lots of visible sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of apricot, red apple, cooked carrot, ‘wet dog’, some iron and something sulfuric, indeed a sweet white wine hint, wet kitchen towels, wet cardboard perhaps, withering grass. Sweet, cleanly fruity onset, pear, cooked red apple and apricot, but surprisingly little grape at least in the beginning – apart from a persistent sourish undertone running till the end. Medium carbonated, very slick body, smooth cereally and very lightly caramelly malt sweetishness, straightforward with a very mild floral hop bitterish touch in the end but primarily a retronasal effect of damp kitchen towels and slight iron. Some vague grape sour-sweetness does linger about in the end, along with a dash of warming alcohol, but for a beer presenting itself as “from hops and grapes”, I expected it to be much more grape- or wine-forward; Italian grape ale the Belgian way? Not too impressed by this: see Italy’s grape ales for truly great examples of how to connect wine to beer…

Dumpy 33cl bottle: BB 20th June 2024. Poured into a Duvel glass (2000 version) at home on 18th September 2023 during a random tasting session with myself. No sediment left the bottle (will add it later) so I've got a lovely golden amber beer, clear and clean looking, on top a thin white blanket of foam. Yeasty front with a white wine like undertone, feels like it might cause a hangover to me. Peachy taste in with the wine flavours, interesting. OK, time to add the sediment; last third of the beer now a murky, sediment floating mess. More yeasty, more 'winey' and more 'boozy', it's like two different beers in one bottle, I think I preferred the cleaner first pour, but the latter is also fine for those that like to have the whole bottle and I'm sure it will 'aid my digestion system' in the morning!

Bottle @ home. Unclear orange golden body under a nice, dense, white head. Aroma is more like a typical triple than wine. Pale malt, sugar and Belgium yeast. Taste is also rather classic triple with a faint hint of white vine and wood. Nice, elegant and classic triple with just a hint of grapes/vine.

Hazy amber colour, a lot of yeast flakes. Nose of peach, fruity, white wine, grapes. Rather sweet with a vinous finish.