(750ml bottle from the brewpub bottleshop) Pours hazy medium pink with a small white head and no lace. Aroma is quite funky in overtone, mulchy slightly farty barnyard and wet musty leaves, below that are plenty of red wine skins and associated red berry notes of cherry and red field berries, some wood, and a nice saison yeast presence as well. Flavour is lightly sweet and lightly to moderately tart up front, funk is less aggressive than the nose and allows space for the grape skins to breathe, nice cherry and lingon-adjacent pinot character, good tannic structure, soft fruity esters, herbal bitterness and solid tannins building middle to finish though and the barrel becoming more prominent, some cellar-type Brett mustiness too. Dry bitter lightly mineral finish, lots of wood and tannic red wine skins, dried herbs. Medium bodied, filling but not prickling bottle condition type carb. Lovely red wine ale without a dose of it like Burdock often does, but solid wood and tannin structure giving an unusual bitter profile for variety. Great summer sipper.

(375ml bottle c/o Herbalist, thanks!) Pours nearly clear gold with a small white head and no lace. Aroma is definitely adjacent to oaky Riesling, with candied lemon, soft peach, smooth white wine, touch of tannin, acidic pale berries (not explicitly sea buckthorn), quite some decent oak, some minerality, moderate earthy funk. Flavour is moderately tart and lightly sweet, wine-adjacent for sure; soft and zesty lemon, soft stone fruit, the mineral saline bite of sea buckthorn, wet rock, hay-like funk not out of line with natural wine, oak is pretty soft compared to the nose, drying in the finish, lingering lemon/orange fruity bite and minerality. Light bodied but slick and almost oily, near-flat. Very smooth, not overly complex nor simple, with good quenching balance from the adjuncts. Tasty.