Baladin Xyauyù Etichetta Rame (Copper Label)

Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: Barley Wine
Piozzo, Italy

Bottle bronze label 2004 vintage: Pours a viscous oily transparent deep copper with a thin ring of off-white bubbles, but mostly still. Aroma of dense, sweet caramel malt with oxidized dark fruity raisin and brown sugar complexity. Body is rich and molten dark caramely sticky sweet with a nice balance of fruitiness, brown sugar, and alcoholic warmth. Well-aged and very complex with a smooth, yet rich finish.

500ml Bottle (2005 Vintage) in my DFH Snifter: Complex aroma of wood, dark ripe fruits, slight alcohol, figs, prunes, toasted caramel, raisins, and port wine. Poured brown/deep amber/deep copper in color with no head at all. Cloudy. Not sparkling at all. Full of large and huge particles throughout. Flavor is heavily sweet. Tastes of dark ripe fruits, toffee, light wood, raisins, plums, figs, dark ripe fruits, slight wood, light honey, and a hint of tobacco. Full body. Viscous, syrupy texture is slightly dry. Zero carbonation. Sweet, dark ripe fruit, slight tobacco, and slight honey finish. On par with Sam Adams’ Utopia. 13.5%ABV is present in the nose but not in the flavor.

Couleur acajou vêtu d’une timide mousse beige pale. Arômes très maltés et vineux style sherry conférant des notes d’oxydation évidente et très plaisante. Flaveurs sucrées de malt, de noix, de foin et de grain au repos à la grange, de connivence au caractère de malt authentique de plusieurs Eisbock, dopplebock. Superbe extraction de malt, corps très dense, texture collante et sirupeuse, alcool et oxydation fonctionnant bien en tandem et semblant tout à fait à leur place. Superbe ! Merci Lorenzo !

Bottled shared with Degarth, Ibrew2or3 and Gillard. Plum colored body, very grape looking, gorgeous color. No head at all, not even any foam really. Some sediment in the bottom of the glass, especially from later pours of the bottle. Nose is pretty hot with fusels, also plums, dark malts, raisins, figs, caramel, rum soaked bread, caramel candy and candied sugars. Smells really, really good. Very fruity and dark without smelling sweet at all to me. Now the flavor, wow, what a difference. Super sweet, tons of sugar and sweet, sweet fruits. Behind all of that is a strong caramel and dark fruit backbone, and virtually no hint of the ABV. I just keep smelling and then tasting this beer over and over, because my head can’t wrap around how different those two things are, while both being superb. Medium bodied, sticky and satisfying. Warming as you drink more of it, the ABV shows up as a very slight burn in the very back of the throat. Caramel, sweet fruit preserves and malts carry into the lengthy finish. World class beer, and a startling discovery.

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4 yrs old. Burgandy, countless sparkling floaters. No head. Aroma: Dry fruits, wood. Flavor: Sweet, dries fruits, syrupy to the point that it might work with pancakes, molaysis, barley. VERY sweet from nose to finish. This is a very fine brew but even at a discount to $34, its out of my range to try very often. At the same time, one must credit the Italians for making this. It is a case-in-point mating between beer and wine (and Italian wines are my personal favorite wines).

Pleasant aroma rich of chocolate caramel, malt, dark fruit and sweet chocolate. Strong but balanced

Source:2005 copper bottle shared by Steamhead.
Glass:Taster.
Appearance:Dark brown pour with an ultra-thin head. Lots of suspended carbonation.
Aroma:Aroma was burned sugar, molasses, brown sugar and sherry.
Flavor:A lot of residual sweetness. Brown sugar and molasses. Reminds me of Thomas Hardys.
Palate:Extremely full body...think heated pancake syrup with more carbonation than I would have expected, but the body doesn’t allow it to escape.
Overall:I really enjoyed this. Would be perfect as an after dinner drink from a cordial or a snifter.