8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(750ml bottle from BG18e, Quebec City) Notes from memory as a computer crash ate them. Pours clear deep orangish-pink with a tight and reviving white cap and spotty lace. Aroma is punchy raspberry, mostly fresh-crushed fruit with a little cooked berry and dash of fruit vinegar, lemon and grapefruit pulp lactic acidity, mulchy sort of flora, raspberry skin earthy depth, a bit of drying wood. Flavour is quite acidic off the top, fresh raspberry acidity with lactic lemon and grapefruit juice, dash of acetic acid, some citrus peels, slightly leathery Brett character without a lot of obvious funk, a little berry pip astringency, light drying wood, finish is long and still quite acidic raspberry and grapefruit with some fruit vinegar. Light bodied with very filling but fine bottle-conditioned carbonation. Nice raspberry wild, acidic but not undrinkably so. The spontaneous component doesn't have the complexity of a lambic but enjoyable all the same.