UPDATED: AUG 31, 2020 ( bottle) Aroma: caramel, grape stones, red wine smell. Taste: semi-sweet, flavour of toasted malt, wine, wood, caramel with some fruity tartness, Palate: medium to full body, flat, nice warming feeling. Overall: Good one !

UPDATED: JUN 29, 2020 330ml bottle. Cloudy, dark brown colour with ruby shimmer and small, creamy, settling, afterwards mostly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Caramel malty aroma, notes of caramel, dark caramel, minimally woody, oaky overtones of red wine, Port, Marsala, Sherry, blue grapes, spicy whiffs of marmite. Taste is dry, woody, minimally tart-ish, tannic, oaky, caramel malty and vinous fruity, notes of caramel, dark caramel with very low residual sweetness, hints of blue grapes, blackcurrant, red wine, a touch of Port, Marsala, dry Sherry. Oily-watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally cloying palate (no tacky sweetness, rather lingering dryness on a dark caramel basis), fine and soft carbonation. Obviously well matured (cellared for more than five years), superbly balanced, well controlled sweetness, matching dry and tart-ish, tannic woody and fruity counterparts. Dangerously drinkable - very good! Btw. I love the shape of these bottles - but this idiosyncratic aspect doesn't inform my rating.

UPDATED: DEC 7, 2019 Bottle at home, 7th December 19. Pours a clear chestnut brown. Aroma is raisins, vinous, barrel, caramel, dark fruit, prune juice. Taste is smooth, raisin, prune juice, barrel, rioja, Wet wood. Delicious and smooth barrel wine, well integrated

UPDATED: NOV 15, 2020 Barley wine de 12 % abv de l'édition 2013 (oh joie), et qui avait déjà passé à ce moment-là 15 mois en fûts de vin … A rien près, cette bière est plus âgée que moi .. (hum, hum). Un style de l'ancienne Grèce, nous dit le brasseur, ressuscité pour les besoins (respectables, c'est moi) de l'aristocratie anglaise du 19° s. Quel beau raccourci du barley wine .. Couleur auburn profond aux reflets roux très jolis, clarté nette. Mousse en nappage beige à la paroi et un peu en surface. Arômes de brandy, vin cuit (le meilleur), pruneaux, figue confite. 1ère bouche divine de vin rouge, avec une fin de bouche porto. Arrière-bouche sur des fruits très mûrs (poire, prune). 2ème qui densifie encore le propos, pour arriver à un élixir. Arrière-bouche superbe, dense, complexe. 3ème qui entre dans le 3ème niveau : finesse, art, merveilleux. Arrière-bouche de pure dégustation. La longueur parachève cette merveille .. avec du vin du Médoc, et pas le plus mauvais .. On est plutôt vers le Château Margaux .. Jambes huileuses, longues. Levure un rien boisée et épicée, très belle ligne. Alcool magnifique, il n'est pas du tout assommant malgré son niveau, mais il distille les saveurs, avec un savoir-faire consommé .. Finale de grande ampleur. CONCLUSION : un chef d’œuvre, malheureusement temporaire et daté, mais quel plaisir des sens … et quelle révélation !! Un des 5 les plus purs. Bravo Napar.

Thanks to my friend Jorge Arza
33cl bottle
Dark brown color, light beige head with medium retention, some lacing. Aroma has light notes of toasted malts notes, light molasses and a high presence of wine. Flavor is light sweet, notes of red wine, light berries. LIght bitterness in the final, smooth and creamy mouthfeel.

Backlog, ocena przepisana z untappd, w ramach uzupełniania profilu na ratebeer. Kapitalny Barley Wine! Figi, orzechy, wanilia... Piękne piwo.

February 2017 - Bottle share at One Canada Square, with big thanks to Matteo for this big beer. As ’Naparbier Avant-Garde Series Barley Wine Aged for 15 Months. Wine Ed. 2013’, 12%. Pale murky brown, very little head, cloudy. Aroma is cola, vanilla, earthy. Body is smooth, oily with low carbonation. Taste is papery, vanilla, oxidised, boozy, leaves. I wasn’t blown away. (3.2)

33cl bottle shared in CW. Sourced via Etre. It pours a hazed amber color with a minimal beige head. Aroma is super sweet with complex malty barrel notes of caramel, toffee, red wine, bourbon, melon, vanilla. Taste is also rich sweet with loads of vanilla, caramel, melon, toffee, bourbon. Complex beer. Medium to full bodied with good carbonation. Overall, very good

Bottle shared in London - thanks to Matteo. Pours mostly clear amber with a bubbly, off-white head. Aged fruits in the nose, a little leather, toffee, earth, wood. Medium sweet flavour with faint berry tang, some booze, woody dryness. Full bodied, lightly oily, with fine carbonation. Warming finish with some woody dryness, more ripe berries, faint tang, raisins. Good stuff.

Bottle thanks to Matteo. It pours murky mahogany brown with a small beige head. The aroma is rich, sweet, sticky, juicy, dried fruits, wood, leather, earth, must, dirt and old armchair. The taste is slick, bitter, sweet, chewy, dry, tannin, berry skin, earth, booze, salted plum, banana, brandy, wood and earth with a drying, warming finish. Full body and fine carbonation. Rich, robust and boosty. Good fun.