Speling van het Lot XI.v: Pruim: Conducta + Opal

Blend n° 24 • seizoen 19|20

# of bottles: 969

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.

Most of our grapes are currently sourced with Wijndomein Hoenshof from Hoepertingen, near Sint-Truiden in the beautiful province of Limburg. Ghislain and Jeroen also have quite some plum varieties in their orchard. In the summer of 2019, we got a good 440 kilos of Conducta plums and 110 kilos of Opal plums in. We barrel-macerated these for 5 months on some young lambic and bottled this fruit lambic straight away. The final fruit intensity is still a staggering 768 grams of plums per liter of Pruim. The lambic used for maceration came from one barrel that held two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
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