 acrdz (4406), Boulder, Colorado, USA
Jun 11, 2006 Updated: Aug 8, 2007
750ml bottle, vintage 11/1998
Consumed at Delirium Cafe, Brussels, May 2006 (8 years cellared)
Cloudy yellow and warm orange colored body. First taste is semi-musty oranges and warm fruit. Thick, musty, old, over-ripe fruits dominate this gueze, admittedly not one of my favorite gueze aspects. Old, tinny, almost "bloody" nose of oranges. The sourness is fresh and light, thankfully, and almost creamy at times. Moderately thick texture. Very good, less brash than most, most likely due to age, but I can’t mark this up anymore due to the old fruit flavors which I find mildly unpleasent.
Had more at BCTC 2007 and I won’t change my rating or numbers at all.
Photograph of Bottle & Glass
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ygtbsm94 (10), Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
Sep 19, 2008 Bottle from a 75cl bottle; vintage 1998. Poured a light orangey color with a medium bubbly head. Fantastic aroma with a funky barnyard musty note. Taste was a mixed well balanced lemony, tart, and light sour note along with some medium light oak. Without doubt drinkable with almost no acidity and some great carbonation! Mellow, soft, and a well balanced, quite refined Gueuze. Without question an outstanding Gueuze for the ages even after ten years.
KimJohansen (4299), Copenhagen V, Denmark
Sep 3, 2008 Cloudy golden with huge white short lasting head. Quite thick head for a lambic. Sour aroma with wood, grapefruit, barnyard and leather notes. Sour and very complex flavor with grapefruit, barnyard, wood and hay. Very soft and easyly drunk. I could drink this every moning. Excellent!
tertons (100), East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Aug 25, 2008 Thank to YGTBSM94. Easy drinking w/ a slight tart and funk. Balance, complexity, and all fruit notes excell here. Maybe my favorite from 3 Fonteinen. Ageing is working well as of 8/22/08.
DA (2484), Portland, Oregon City, Oregon, USA
Aug 18, 2008 RBSG 2008. What a treat. Dry and acidic, citrusy and tropical floral notes in the funkiness. The sourness and acidity were very relaxed, the aging mellowed this out very well leaving behind a beautiful mellow cloudy orange brew.
ironchefscott (247), long beach, California, USA
Aug 16, 2008 thank you dunk!!!! great nose of oak and funk...somewhat subdued funk compared to the younger vintages
glad to have tried it!
very complex
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