Speling van het Lot X.ix - Druif: Gewürztraminer
(Batch of Druif - Gewürztraminer)
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.83
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We are very often blessed with the people we meet along our path. A few years ago, Armand let us taste an amazing Gewürztraminer from one of the most stubborn natural winemakers from Pfaffenheim, Alsace, north-east of France. The no-intervention wine was simply splendid. We visited them a few times already to pick our own Gewürztraminer grapes. End of September 2019, we came back with 247 kilos of – what we think of as one of the nicest grape varieties around – Gewürz. We destemmed the grapes immediately upon our return and put them with 250 litres of lambik on an ex-Bordeaux barrel. The maceration period took about five months. Prior to bottling, we blended with just a tad of young lambik. The result is wine-like grape lambik with an abundant character. Final fruit intensity is 706 grams of must per litre of druivenlambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
75cl bottle (Blend 35 ∙ 22 - 23, 7.8%, bottled 01/26/2023, 437grams of Gewürztraminer grapes per litre) from the brewery. F: thin, white, some bubbles. C: deep gold to amber, hazy. A: nice light sour fruity, barnyard, funky, apples peels, peach, nice grapes, lychees. T: full malty base, barnyard, clear Gewürztraminer grapes, bit gooseberries, lychees, spicy touch, light sour fruity, funky, dry on the palate, soft carbo, very nice as I expected, fully enjoyed.
Ratebeer Odense First tasting of the year 2024. Hazy golden with a lasting white head. Funky aroma with plenty of apple peel. Dry and tart fruity and funky flavour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense, January twenty four. Pours Unclear Golden with a White head. Apple skinz, funk, barnyard, Wood. Manuer. Bone dry with a touch of warming alcohol.
Viinamarjane, hapu, magus, veinine, alks. Hea.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
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.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours unclear blonde, bit darker. Small white head. Scent is full, fruity, rough grapes. Tad earthy, brett, some wood. Taste is full, aromatic, spices, a bit like moscatel - very spice forward grape aroma. Not necesarily my thing, but interesting and well made nevertheless.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
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.
Nose: super mineral, stinky cheese. Palate: sweet dank grapes, low/mid carbonation, sweet finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at OBD. Pours a cloudy orange gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is grape must, wood, funk. Light body, funky, oak, grape skin, olive, slight vinegar, light tartness, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
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.