Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

(750ml bottle from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours lightly hazed deep red like a medium bodied red wine, with a small pinkish head that fades without lace. Notes are surprisingly saturated in aronia berries giving a huge concentration of acidic red wine notes with red forest berry, cherries, punchy tannins and earthy, somewhat spicy accents, some lightly sweet apples helping to keep balance to light sweet and light tart, finishing quite dry and notably tannic with lots of lingering red wine and almost woody earthy notes. Medium bodied, average carbonation. Awesome, I thought the berry quality here was more intense than in Auval's aronia beer but the wine notes it imparts are lovely.