8

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

A hazy orange golden beer with a white head. Aroma of sour apricot, peach, brett. Taste of brett, sour peach, apricot, funk.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Pours slightly hazed blonde, medium small, fast fading white head. Scent is mature, brett, oak, but rather sharp and 'thin'. Taste is very pronounced on the rbett, oak, fairly dry. Very barnyard-like, bit cheesy (isovaleric acid in acceptable levels). Feels much older than it actually is, very mature lambic profile here. I would have liked a bigger mouthfeel though, and the aftertaste is quite short on this one. A very decent geuze, but not one for the trophy shelves.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Rick solid. Citric twang, grassy hops, mellow funk, woody dryness. Well balanced, just enough bite. Great stuff.

8.4

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

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, directly from Tilquin. Color: Clear orangish golden, dense and stable white head. Aroma: Subtle tartnesa, berries, old hop and subtle funk. Taste: Again subtle moderate tartness, fruity notes of white berries and grapes, hints of lime, subtle rural funk and old hop, some oak wood. Very well balanced. Dry-ish finish. Great!

8.9

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

One in three new additions to Tilquin's marvellous Family Tree project of geuzes, each honouring a member of founder Pierre Tilquin's family and each brewed with different proportions of young and old lambic; this one is very similar to Cuvée Paul from 2022, but with a bit more two than three year old lambic. The name is confusingly similar to Lindemans' classic geuze Cuvée René, of course, apart from one letter - the -e indicating that the 'Renée' in question here was female, more precisely one of Pierre Tilquin's grandmothers. Medium thick, egg-white, only lightly lacing, very moussey, dense, slowly thinning and breaking head over an initially clear, warm pale orange-hued old golden robe with a steady and straight stream of sparkling rising up - a beauty for sure, shifting to a deeper orangey mistiness further on. Aroma of unripe red plum, ripe gooseberry, old wooden cupboards, dried dandelion, lime juice, sawdust, redcurrants, dry hay, crumbling loam soil, a very faraway whiff of chlorine (as from old lambic), dried apple peel, stale crackers, old leather, young bitter herb leaves, with more 'funk' (urine-like Brett odours) coming in as the content of the bottle is further emptied. Crisp, 'malse' onset, lime-like spritzy sourness but nothing too acetic, surrounding a lively tart fruitiness of ripe gooseberries, redcurrants and green plums, very supple and low in astringency, notably 'juicier' than the Cuvée Denise I had last week. Effervescent with notably minerality, but in a very refined way, nowhere coarse. Fruity-lactic acidity continues this lively, supple, crisp element over a bread-crusty core, with these lime and gooseberry effects persisting, keeping everything in this lovely 'juiciness', even when tannic old wood dryness sets in; a note of old hop bitterness lurks faraway at the back but rather subtly so, modestly hiding under all this estery fruitiness, organic sours, grains and wood, with the Brettanomyces funk echoing retronasally - as in dry hay and old dry leather. A lovely green gooseberry and lime 'green fruit sourness' lingers - this geuze remains remarkably crisp, fruity and juicy all the time, 'feminine' as it were, with every aspect worked out in great detail and none of it overpowering another; a hugely drinkable yet at the same time utterly delicate, exquisite, classy, noble geuze. I wish I could pay hommage to my late grandmother in such a sophisticated way... Absolutely beautiful in its sheer fruitiness, relative restraint, purity and finesse, this is once again a Family Tree geuze that really blows me away.