6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750ml bottle. Murky orange. Natural wine and orange and funk. Full bodied. Lactic and acetic. Grippy. 7 3 7 3 13

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared in NH. Cheers to Duke. Pours hazed gold with a small, creamy white head. Lightly sweet, some tangy citrus, assertive woody dryness, some grassy bitterness, mild warmth, damp earth. Medium bodied with fine, spritzy carbonation. Pretty clean finish, more citric bite, grass, woody notes. Good stuff.

8

Taster at MBCC 21. Light Golden with little head . Sour, Apple, berries, Smooth, some sweetness.

9

My first oxbow wild? Freggin delish fruity funky wild.

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle from Goods from the Garden: pours orange with a small head. Aroma is basement funk, slight fruitiness, dust and herbs. Taste is more funky than sour. Complex and pretty deep. Makes itself known.

8

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

Bottle, thanks to mansquito. Pours bright orange. Funk, lemon, touch of herbal, sharp, cereal, barnyard, apricot, peach. Medium body. Good.

8

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

Bottle, 750 ml, trade with Mansquito. Shared with Max and JFK10000. Cloudy golden, white head. Citrus, fruity, lemon, barrel, barnyard, moderate sourness, funky. Medium bodied. Some cork, too strong in fact, brings it down for me.

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle thanks to Trevor. Pours a cloudy orange with small white head that lasts. The aroma is funk, oak, lemon zest, apple skin. Medium body, strong funk, oak, apple, nice tartness, light dry finish, enjoyed this.

9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle at the blending room. Crystal clear golden color white edge head. Aroma of funk, dust, cobwebs with sweaty animals watching from a safe distance. Taste rivals any gueuze coming out if that country that lost to France. Holy cow. Glad they’ll be making more like this.

8.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Batch 1 bottle at Novare Res, 12/29/17 and 4/21/18.
Minimally hazy, brass-bronze-apricot with deep maize hues and a small, off-white head atop that steadily recedes to a ring.
Yellow fruits and a delightfully soft mix of bacteria/yeast rise up immediately as light, neutral oak imparts a wine-like character. Slight cereal and strong biscuity-wheat sit in the background. Neither punchy, nor heavily lactic with only a trace of acetic acid adding cherry-like notes. Sweet marmalade, apricot jam and long, woody, heavy mineral notes follow, punctuating the finish. The younger bottle I had was stronger on green apple, but that seems to be well on its way out, with only slight remnants noted in the 4/21 sample. It's not massively funky in the nose; not yet anyways, but what's there is lovely. This definitely doesn't smell like an American sour under the guise of a lambic.
In the mouth it's fruity, extremely soft, impressively so, with big tannin character and easygoing, but still prominent acidity. Cherry-orange-apricot with light-to-moderate Brett, moderate lactic and light acetic character. More oak keeps things very dry and interesting, as earth, must, cellar and almost a grape-like character linger on the end. Low but tight carbonation and a soft, malty texture. Good dryness throughout. Excellent and well on its way to being spectacular in a few years.