Nèfle (2013)

Lambic - Fruit

"In 2013, I spoke with a friend, a vegetable supplier for a michelin restaurant about using another fruit in the lambic and he told me about the nèfle. I asked Jean [van Roy] if we could try and he agreed to use one barrel. We ordered 92kg of fresh organic nèfles from Spain. The fruits were good and Jean suggested to remove half the pits, as he does for fou foune. I think that we let the fruit age 6 weeks and when tasting the beer, were disappointed; all the fruity flavor was gone and only the pit stayed. I said we should name the beer N like noyau (pit/stone in english). Like natural wine, the taste is evolving, sometimes it tastes bad a few months or a few years and gets better. But I have to admit that when I brought the 240 bottles to the cellar, I hoped to use them one day for the kitchen... In 2018 I was digging in the cellar, tasting some of the bottles to check their condition for Quintessence: LPK '08 was finally where I expected it, Zwanze '09 was heavily unbalanced, best pick was a Grand Cru '08, and without conviction I told Mat, my bar manager, and Bertrand, one of my bartenders, "you are gonna drink something very rare and probably not good." I took the decanter, poured the bottle and we tasted the Nèfle and it was surprisely good, weird balance but a clear fruit, and a very fun taste structure. We agreed with the staff to put it on the menu for Quintessence in 2018. Nèfle has no label because we never expected to sell it after the first tasting." -Jean Moeder

ABV

5.0

Rating

4.11256

Rating count

211

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over 4 years ago

 
4.0

about 1 year ago

 
4.25

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over 1 year ago

 
4.0

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over 1 year ago

 
4.5

over 1 year ago

 

Jean Pierre

My last bottle... but a super hit ! Incredible but a bit weird... a unique experience

4.75

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over 1 year ago

 

Amélie Forest

Marc toujours aussi généreux qui nous sort ça à l’aveugle à 9h45. Bon début de Zwanze y’all!! C’est super difficile à guesser. Certains call GCB, d’autres Iris, d’autres Vig. C’est comme un mélange des 3. Super belle acidité pas trop, beau mouthfeel.

4.5

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over 2 years ago

 

Mat Carbo

#TheEndOfAllTastings

4.5

almost 3 years ago

 
4.5

almost 3 years ago

 

Jonathan M

Like a tart white wine. Little more

4.0

almost 3 years ago

 

Eric Novielli

Pretty much similar to the one had on draft at the Moeder event in April for Quintessence, but this is even brighter. Flat lambic with fine and intense medlars smell and taste. So fresh and refreshing. Bitterness and tartness goes wild. 4.40

4.5

almost 3 years ago

 
4.5

almost 3 years ago

 

Amélie Forest

17 avril. Moeder Fontainas. Après un top brunch au Dillens, je suis ready to go again. Y fait f’in beau, Max a retrouvé mes lunettes fumées et y a de la Nèfle en fût. Rien à voir avec celle en bouteille au Vices. Aucun vernis à ongle.

4.5

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about 3 years ago

 

Valeria

Missed Checkin

4.0

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about 3 years ago

 
4.5

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Jorge

Falta foto

4.25

about 3 years ago

 

Jacob Cottreau

Very interesting fruit. Was almost meaty with notes of mango and passion fruit. More pronounced bitterness than some other stuff we had opened at the time. For me very enjoyable

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about 3 years ago

 

Elarna Rama

Bitter Frazzles. Hmm. What is a medlar anyway? Are they appley???

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about 3 years ago

 
4.0

about 3 years ago

 
4.5

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about 3 years ago

 
4.5

about 3 years ago

 

R C

4.0

about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 

G J.

it's rare, so it must be good ... it is pretty good

4.25

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about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 
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3.75

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about 3 years ago

 
4.25

about 3 years ago

 

Joel W.

Acidy

4.0

about 3 years ago

 
4.0

about 3 years ago

 

Ronnie Falcon Rory

With the cheese fondue baguette

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about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 

Jonathan M

Surprisingly better than the bottle I had last time

4.0

about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 
4.25

about 3 years ago

 

Brett Domue

Tart and sweet.

4.0

about 3 years ago

 
4.5

about 3 years ago

 
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about 3 years ago

 

skrip

Very orange wine like

4.5

about 3 years ago

 
4.25

about 3 years ago

 

Patrick Helmold

Kinda passion fruit, mango, berry juice

4.0

about 3 years ago

 
4.0

about 3 years ago

 

Gael G.

Better than expected, stone fruity with an extra bite, a little tarter than usual but overall close to an old fou in profile and quality at this age, just a little tarter and less jammy

4.25

about 3 years ago

 
4.25

about 3 years ago

 
4.25

about 3 years ago

 

Jacob Halling Hansen

Ratebeer backlog 4,1

4.0

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over 4 years ago