Zenne y Frontera PX Single Barrel (Season 19|20) Blend No. 67
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
7.77
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This iteration of Zenne y Frontera is a Single Barrel PX Geuze.
Pedro Ximénez sherry is the sweetest and darkest of sherries - due to the residual sugars from the sun-dried grapes with the same name - combined with typical muted oxidative characteristics and an aromatic abundance of typically figs, dates and raisins, and liquorice and dark chocolate. After the primary fermentation, the PX wine is muted and subjected to a solera process. That is how typically, highly qualitative PX sherries have an average weighted age of over 20 years when bottled.
Beginning of 2019, we filled such a freshly emptied old PX barrel with young lambik and let it age for another year. Mid-April 2020, we blended that one barrel with a bit of young lambik to create an effervescent refined sherry lambik, or a sherry geuze if you will. The weighted average age of the blend upon release will be older than thirty-five months. There were 368 bottles bottled, but we already shared a few among us, so a bit less are left. 100% 3 Fonteinen lambik.
Magnum bottle. Very fine carbonation. Really effervescent. Higher acidity. Subtle to medium PX sherry notes. Quite dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Pours darker blonde, small white head. Scent is chewy, tad malty, mild oak. No real PX. Very creamy in a way. Taste is intensely tart, some oxidative notes, but it very much hides the PX specifics (raisins ! ) Tastes more like what I'd expect from an Oloroso single barrel, rather than PX. All details of course, as the endresult surely is an amazing beer , and one of the best Zenne's in the last years.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Taster from magnum bottle at the Lambic O Droom. amber ahzy color. small white head. smells sherry, earthy, peppery, herbal, very nice smell. full body, light carbonation. tastes sherry, peppery, doughy, breadish, earthy, grassy. finishes light to medium sour with notes of sherry, dough and earthy notes. very nice one, not super sherry forward, but overall very good.
8, 4, 8, 4, 17
Nose: very brett forward, raisins. Palate: soft, medium carbonation, grapes, caramel malt
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Magnum at OBD. Pours a cloudy orange gold with medium white head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is funk, earth, wood, floral. Slick body, funky, light oak, dry finish, very good.