Undated bottle. Label seems faded and dry, and the cork was wet on top. As I removed the cork, there was no pop. The pour was mostly still. Aroma of light table sugar, a bit of sweet plums and raisins. Some dry oak mixed with syrupy pils malt and more residual candi-like sugar. There is a distinct tartness in the nose, and for that I’m happy. Some redeeming lambic quality at least, though it is mostly restrained and easygoing. It appears a murky, lifeless, green-yellow-brown, with no head and only a smattering of bubbles. Flavor is sweet at first, with some corky/yeasty funk, quickly moving in to dry, oaky wood and light sugar. Finishes thick, sugary and gritty, like there are sugar granules in it. But for all of the sweetness, I can’t deny to being a little charmed by the plum juice flavor. Enough oak and light yeast make their way in to keep it interesting, and by the end, I am only slightly put-off by the over-sugared body. Slick, dead, still body does not create much interest, but there is a bit of action from the oak dryness. Hints of bygone carbonation are slightly noticeable.

Dodgy blood-like colour. Very artificial cherry aroma. Cloyingly sweet, dessertwine-like flavour.

Dark golden, honeyish colour with faint olive shine; whiteish head, gone in secs. Adstringent nose, lemony, but as from those yellow plastic vials sold as lemonjuice substitute. Afterwards glue and a particular kind of thick-skinned yellow grapes. Again artificial lemony onset in the taste, then horseblanket for a couple of seconds. Then the mouth dries out at an alarming rate. "Tart" even doesn’t come close. Behind that, some artificial sweetness, overwhelmed. Tart, tart, tart. Dry-out effect, adstringent. Lambid + lemon. Bound to clash somewhere. Lemonsquash².

Golden clear fluid with a vague pinkish and greenish shine; thin, pinkish head. Weird nose - sweet like lokoum or such thing, or something to spray on a Christmas tree; soapy, and maybe even a bit fruity. Well - fruit as reinvented by Proctor & G. Fruity-sweets taste. Pineapple ester, a soft gum flavoured with pineapple. And once more, I must think of Christmas decoration. Light, very slight sourish edge, not tart. Artificially sweetened & fruitened concoction. Childrens’ drink? Not MY children, anyway.

Bottled. Dark amber. Aroma of glue and thinner. Megasweet and one dimensional. Odd sawdust flavour. Strange, and as authentic as all other De Trochs...