7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Golden with a white head - Sour wood aroma - Sour wood flavours with some fruity hints - Sour flavours goes into the fiinish - This was good

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Golden with a white head - Sour wood aroma - Sour wood flavours - Sour flaovurs goes into the finish - This was good

8.6

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

8.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Raspberry lambic (‘framboise’) flavoured with vanilla and apricot kernels, one of those Bokke blends that made this blendery so highly regarded (and coveted); dating back to 2016 and therefore eight years old at the time of sampling. Medium thick, initially quite stable but eventually dissolving, ‘dirty’ pinkish off-white, moussey, regular head on a misty burgundy-tinged deep vermillion red robe, cloudy and a tad brownish-hued in the end (even more burgundy – perhaps also a sign of age in this case). Intense aroma of red raspberries in the most real and pure way, raspberry vinegar, sour tomatoes (a typical raspberry side effect for me), wet old wood, indeed moist apricot kernels, raspberry bush leaves, freshly cut celery, hints of passionfruit, old oxidized dry rosé wine, stale lemon juice, roses, damp earth. Sharply tart onset, pure and pungent raspberry acidity with a bit of their sweetness, lemony around the edges, sour grape and redcurrant effects; still lively carbonation, with this stewed and sour tomato effect – from those raspberries – spreading out over a drying lactic layer and slender cereally core. Lots of vivid fruitiness (and fruit acidity) remains, while the wood and apricot kernels add elegant tannic effects and dryness; slight oxidation is there retronasally, but also, for a very brief moment only, a glimpse of the vanilla that was added – but faded after eight years to such an extent that you will miss it in the blink of an eye. Ends with some earthy, farmlandy notes too, but the brightness and vibrant tartness of the raspberries prevail till the last drop. Very rich in fruit as expected from a Bokke fruit lambic, sharp, acidic and tannic yet very elegant and ‘apéritif’-like, even oddly ‘fresh’ after eight years in the bottle – but, and this may or may not be due to the vanilla faded into almost nothing, not the single best fruit lambic I ever had, contrary to its position in that category on this very site.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

How: Bottle..
Where: MBCC 2024.
Appearance: Hazy orange colour with a white head.
Aroma: Fruit, sour, tart, plum.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Fruit, sour, tart, plum.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

How: Bottle.
Where: MBCC 2024.
Appearance: Hazy orange colour with a white head.
Aroma: Sour, tart, grapes, funk, yeast.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Sour, tart, grapes, funk, yeast.

8

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

How: Bottle.
Where: MBCC 2024.
Appearance: Hazy orange colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Funk, sour, apricots, tart, fruit.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Funk, sour, apricots, tart, fruit.

7.6

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

Pours a bitr unclear, small white head. Scent is full, elderflower. Complex lambic base (typical Bokke) . Taste is full, elderflower, giving a certain sweetness almost. Tart but very balanced back. Lovely blend, as always, even for me who doesn't particularly like elderflower.

8.2

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

750ml bottle pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice floral funky tartness some light fruit. Taste is very interesting floral funky barrel lots going on.

9.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Thanks CT for sharing the 2019 bottle! Cup showing dark vinous red with an everlasting half a finger of pink foam.

The nose shows intense tart notes of tomato and light raspberry. Peaches become more apparent upon decanting.

The palate is well carbonated and light bodied. Peach forward with a lot of juicy raspberries and a very well balanced tartness.