Speling van het Lot XI.iv: Pruim: Sultana

Blend n° 21 • seizoen 19|20

# of bottles: 684

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen “Speling van het Lot” (Twist of Fate) is a series of small batch experimental brews, barrel maturations, fruit macerations and blends. This 11th version features a range of plum(-like) fruit macerations. About 60 years ago, there were more than 200 ancient plum varieties in and
around Belgium, now almost extinct. The ambition is to track down and experiment with such old local varieties and have them grown again with local farmers and enthusiasts.

Ludo Rosseels is known to be one of the last peach growers in Belgium, if not the last. He also owns a small plum orchard with a wide array of new and older varieties. As the last two harvests of peaches were a disaster with virtually no yield, and because we also wanted to help (and actually because we were eager to test), we dived into his plum orchard. That is how in July 2019, we harvested about 250 kilos of Sultana plums that we macerated for almost 6 months. We blended with young lambic prior to bottling to create a nice fruity sparkling plum lambic. The lambic originates from 2 different barrels and 4 different brews. The final fruit intensity is 500 grams of Sultana plums per liter of Pruim. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
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