TILQUIN Mûre Tilquin À l'Ancienne Unitaire

Lambic is a beer brewed with malted barley and wheat, cooled after brewing in the open air to be inoculated by ambient yeasts, then aged in oak barrels. Mûre Tilquin à l'ancienne is the sublime result of fermenting fresh organic blackberries in a blend of 1, 2 and 3 year old lambics for 4 months in barrel and 3 months in bottle. This rosé-coloured beer has everything that makes the reputation of the greatest fruit lambics: a sweet, acidic profile, a wild nose (leather, oak), rounded on the palate by the fruitiness of the blackberry and a low fizz, finishing slightly dry, earthy and tannic (blackberry). A resolutely acidic and complex tasting beer, perfectly suited to gourmet meals, and which several years' cellar ageing will further round out its profile. Resonance pairing: Blackberry crumble. Complementary pairing: Chocolate Moelleux. Contrast: Duck rillettes.