Once Upon a Time in Blenheim
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
7.37
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This is the last barrel aged beer we brewed in Blenheim, before uprooting and setting up a new brewery in the North. A 100% spontaneous fermented and barrel aged lambic inspired beer, co-fermented with the equally spontaneous fermented Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc juice from our fine friends at Cirro Wines.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle, 0.5l - 2014 vintage, at Pikkulintu Kontula, 20240316) The beer poured golden and brilliantly clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had fruitiness, tartness, wood and lightly marmalade. Palate was medium bodied and dry with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, vinous notes, grapes, wood, tartness, sourness and bitterness. Aftertaste had wood, grapes and bitterness. Pleasant. Very different take on sour beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2024
at 17:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Very soaur notes. Light bitter very acetic flavor. Grapes present. Long great sour finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2024
at 09:05
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Best New Zealand lambic I've had this millennium. Great grapefruit infusion and some grape, a little oak barrel. Tangerine and a hint of pepper. Clear golden pour with ok head. Tart fruit finish. Very smooth and easy drinking. 2014 bottle at Pizza Paradiso.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2021
at 20:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a 50 cl bottle. Pours a clear pale gold with a quickly receding white head. Aromas are of funky fruit. Flavors are sour grapes and musty oak. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2020
at 20:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle. Opalescent, yellow-ish golden colour with small to average, firm, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Vinous fruity, woody, funky, tart-ish and tangy aroma, notes of white grapes, white wine, oak, hints of gooseberry, a touch of vinegar. Taste is tart, dry, woody, vinous fruity, notes of white grapes, white wine, grape juice, gooseberry, oak, some residual sweetness with hints of grape sugar, a touch of lime and vinegar. Watery texture, minimally astringent palate, fine, prickly carbonation. Well balanced, not too sour - good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2020
at 22:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 50 cl. Vintage 2014 according to the label. Hazy yellow with a very fizzy but dissipating small, white head when poured. Very complec and vinous aroma - as in an oak aged Chardonnay. Medium body, initially rich and sweet, then gets funky with loads of Brett, white wine vinegar and probably also acetobacter. The sweetness challenges the sourness throughout making this not overly dry. A sophisticated beer indeed. 060320
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2020
at 15:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From bottle @ Sori Taproom. Vintage 2014. Poured light golden in color, almost no head. Aroma has rhubarb, funkyness, apples and grapes. Tartness, wood, apples and light funk. Lemony notes in the dry finish. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2020
at 09:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Gylden klar skum ingen Eddike gær stald hvidvin vindrue Bitter lidt sur lidt Livlig vandede @f1
Tried
on 30 Nov 2019
at 16:55
8/10
Tried
on 30 Nov 2019
at 16:49
10/10
Sour sorbet sweets. Loads of white grape must. Super tannings. Melons. Gooseberry. Aciiiiid droop. So much complexity. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2019
at 17:58