3 Fonteinen Druiven Geuze Malvasia Rosso

Formerly brewed at 3 Fonteinen
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Beersel, Belgium

A hazy orange beer with a small collapsing head. The aroma is lovely sour with notes of peach and grapes. The flavor is sweet and only slightly sour with notes of grapefruit and grapes. The end is dry from the acidity.

Bottled (labelled Drie Fonteinen Druiven Geuze).
Hazy amber. Fruity citric nose. Acidic and full bodied, lively and fresh. The grape character is subdued, leaving the field open for more regular gueuze flavours, but still adds soem fruitiness and bitterness from the grape shells. Intricate and complex, but doesn’t take me to the same levels as their schaaarbeekse kriek.

Bottle 75cl. [ Vintage 2000 ].
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is grape sweet, wine, wood notes, barnyard. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a average to long duration, and a dry finish. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is looks flat but in your mouth it feels lively - fizzy. [260908]

Bottled (vintage 2000). Hazy peach colour, big foamy head. Spices and sour apple in aroma. Sour apple, grapes and spices in flavour. Very dry finish. Extremely pleasant. Wellbalanced.

Murky amber colour. Hugely dusty, vinous aroma. Big, fat lambic tang. Tart and vinous. Lond and dry. Complex mingling of the wine world with traditional lambic notes.

At Akkurat, Stockholm, bottled 2000-10-18 (1 year old Lambic with Italian Malvasia grapes)
Hazy golden color; big fluffy head. As usual from Drie Fonteinen it has an impressive aroma: barnyard, cobwebs, citrus fruits, sweat; grapefruit and very light grapes; very light vanilla too, or cookies; pungent, persistent. The mouthfeel is sharply acidic, with strong grapefruit flavor; the body is quite strong in the beginning, surely more dry and aggressive at the end. The final, if possible, has a subdued residual sweetness; and of course a strong lemony character; pleasant astringency too at the very end. You can drink without stopping.

Bottled, vintage 2000
Hazy peach colour, not much head. Sour, lambic nose. Very carbonated, fruity, you really can taste grapes here. Sour, fruity aftertaste. Balanced, fruity lambic.

Akkurat, vintage 2000. Classiest old bottle (said that a few times recently). The drink is opaque, pale golden with an initially large, uniform white head that diminishes to a firm cover. The most appealing nose takes some time getting used to. The Malvasia grape varietal, which I’m not very familiar with having never had any wine made from it, comes out rather funky, almost mineral with peppery Alsace-like overtones and exotic tropical fruits, pineapple being upfront. Boastful tart intricacies in the shapes of a fruit basket basically. Besides, the usual drie fonteinen glorious citrus extraction is part of the meetup where fine, clean white grapefruit and lemon notes mingle along the wheat to ensure perfect drinkability. Perfect classic Drie Fonteinen mouthfeel comprising the most refined texture and fitting, still active carbonation. Underated if anything, this is a masterpiece of restricted, integrated, beautiful flavors, almost subtle for a lambic. Never agressive, sure of itself, quite dry, quite tart yet certainly never overly so an remaining quite accessible for outsiders I would assume. Classy diplomacy and age resistance all the way.