Zenne y Frontera (Season 22|23) Blend No. 67
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Series|
Score
7.70
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For this specific Zenne y Frontera, we blended ten different lambikken, matured on both Oloroso, Amontillado, Palo Cortado and Pedro Ximénez barrels. This bouquet of sherry lambikken originate in total of ten different original barrels and nine different brews. The weighted average age of this blend upon bottling is a staggering 40 months. More than 1/3 of the lambikken was brewed with locally sourced Pajottenland grains. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
MBCC 2024.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
75cl. Shared with Peter P. Brentford - Tottenham. Pours clear Golden with a small White head. Sesame, funk and good depth. Sweet cherry Wood. Dry finish. Dope. 4.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @MBCC 2024, Red Session. Clear golden white head. Bretty, woody and leathery aroma. Sour, tart flavour, bretty dryness, some wood and solid funky finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 750 ml shared with others. Very juicy, citrus, barrel, some wood is present, funk, medium+ sourness.
Hapu, šerri, kuiv, tammene, happeline, nisune. Hea.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
New addition to the ever-evolving Zenne y Frontera range, among 3 Fonteinen’s most coveted and most highly praised achievements of the past years (since 2015), this one containing lambics aged on different kinds of sherry barrels. Snow white, medium thick, tiny-bubbled, open head on a warm, misty, orange-glowing golden robe. Aroma of pronounced oak wood in a very ‘fresh’ and furniture-like way, lots of (primarily dry) sherry, lemon rind, dried apricot, lemonbalm, young mugwort leaf, unripe oranges, walnut oil, green apples. ‘Malse’ onset, soft ‘stonefruity’ sourness with hints of unripe orange and gooseberry as well, minerally carbonation; smooth and vinous mouthfeel, strong tannic woodiness from the middle onwards over a bread-crusty malt core, fruity lactic acidity and mild lambic esters, increasing in the end when the sherry comes in to highlight the fruitiness and adorn it with oxidation and herbal effects vaguely reminiscent of dried thyme, bergamot, lemonbalm and oxidized Maitrank – until the wood, lambic sours and lactic dryness take over again in a long, drying, rich finish. The sherry is pronounced but well-integrated – and the fact that four basic sherries are featured here, makes this one kind of ‘complete’ and richer than the 70 variant released at the same time. Beautiful – worthy as an addition to this glorious range of world-class lambics.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
MBCC. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is dry, malty, barnyard, citrus and wood. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. 110524
Smooth and slightly vinous with some complex sherry notes. Pretty good