Alvinne Cuvee de Mortagne
Land van Mortagne, aged on oak Pomerol wine barrels.
3.8
249 reviews
Moen, Belgium
Community reviews
Bière brune foncée aux reflets rouges, cuivrés. Aspect épais, gras. Col de mousse court beige écumeux. Très faible tenue. Nez légèrement acide, confiture, vin cuit, fruit rouge confit. Bouche ample boisée, douce de caramel, acidulée, fruits très mûrs, confiture, coulis, raisin sec, léger toffee. Petit côté beurré, foie gras. Gras, collant, très gourmand. Corpulence très épaisse, grasse. Carbonatation très légère. Quadruple vieillie en barrique, boisée, acidulée qui coupe finement la très grande douceur. Bière extrêmement ronde, gourmande, complexe qui gagne en équilibre et en saveur avec le vieillissement.
Clear, amber to dark brown colored, medium frothy beige head. Malty with some caramel and brown sugar, dried fruit, berries, wood, molasses, bit vinous with bit of tartness, sweetish finish, some alcoholic notes. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, oily.
Bottle, 330 ml shared with kajser27 and Max. Brown with off white head. Caramel, sweet, some fruit, vinous, some light fruity tartness, bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Can pass as a good wine, with spice and chocolate again as a good wine. Marvellous and still holding out 5 years.
Aromatic, red berries, very fresh. Tangy and pleasent, a bit short in aftertaste, but a fruity explotion
Bottle at home.
Seemed a bit outdated since I don't find the version with this label in RB nor in Untappd.
Aroma of wine, caramel, plums, a bit sour.
Poured dark red to brown, no head, looked like soda. Label seemed to be made in Word.
Taste is sweet and sour mainly, a bit caramel, vanilla, fruity finish.
Boozy sticky mouthfeel.
Tumman ruskea lasissa. Tuoksu on yllättävän happaman oloinen, hivenen kirsikkaa. Myös marjaisuutta. Maussa tuntuu aika paljon punaviinisyys, joka ei täysin ole omaan makuun. Loppumaku on makea ja tahmainen.
0,33l bottle from Damian Bottle Shop, Bratislava, Pours cloudy dark amber to brown liquid, small creamy tan head, Aroma: sweet, candied fruits, banana, cherries, plums, marzipan, esters, white chocolate, warming alcohol, wooden notes, Taste: heavy sweet, medium bitter, light to medium sour, fruity, esters, banana, cherry, marzipan, lemon peel, warming alcohol, wooden notes, cocoa powder, Palate: full body, soft to flat carbonation, thick oily mouthfeel, long fruity sweet aftertaste, Overall: enjoyed very well.
(> vin, ∞-boisé, cerise-pomme-raisin-cave, > thick-ample, > fûtée-strong, last-fin imposante, ∞-barley-sourée)
Friday, August 10, 2018. Bottle, 33cL. 12.8%. Purchase ("Le Houblon", Poitiers (86), FR). Home. A sparkling brown-red mahogany clear beer with a small beige head ; poor retention ; no bubble. Wood, bourbon?, fruits+(red berries, cherry note). Medium round sweet, warming ; light acid ; light bitter ; light fresh wind. Medium good body, light oily texture, flat, sweet-acid strong lasting finish. Overall, delicious :)
Deep mahogany pour, small offwhite head. Aroma of caramel, toffee, and fruit. Flavor of strawberry, caramel, chocolates and cherries. A bit undercarbonated. Not bad.
Keg at Cafe Gollem 2, Amsterdam. Hazy, deep ruby. An incredibly sweet aroma. Loads of booze soaked cherries, marzipan, nuts and cake in the aroma. Flavour is similar. I think the alcohol is just a bit too much.
Bottle. 12.8% according to the label. Color: Copper, thin beige head. Aroma: Caramel, vinuous, hints of sugar and moderate sour notes. Taste: Very nicely balanced in between medium sweet and moderate to light sour notes, grainy, notes of red wine, caramel, caramelized sugar. Hints of red fruit, apple, grapes and oak. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Lightly boozy finish, some bitterness coming in. Medium body, soft carbonation. Nice one. Interesting beer, nice complexity. Nice one.
Bottle. Dark brown pour. Aroma of red grapes, malt, vanilla, oak, figs and molasses. Taste has smooth vinous oak, red fruit, vanilla, malt, raisin and sweet figs. Nice vinous quad.
Aus der Flasche (ABV 12.8 %) im 2018-05 getrunken. Wow eine fruchtig, leichtsäuerliche Version eines Quardruple so überraschend anderes wie schön. Geiles Zeug!
Bottle from Mitra Bunnik, CDM BB Feb 2021. Almost clear ruby color, just some lacing. Aroma of funk and acetic acid, like an imperial flemish brown, together with some caramel and molasses, red wine. Quite sweet in taste, molasses, cherry praline. Seems to be a beer with two faces, as it is way more a red wine BA quad in flavor than in aroma. Interesting, once again from Alvinne. They are really getting their quality back, plus really getting an own identity.
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. 12.8% abv. Aroma is dark malt, caramel, red wine, oak, vinous notes, brown sugar, raisins, and dried fruits. Flavour is fairly sweet with a certain tartness. Body is medium. I wasn't particularly fond of the base beer but the wine barrel aging really elevated it to another level.
33cl-flaska från biersgourmete. 2014 vintage. Potent med mycket värmande alkohol och mycket vinkaraktär med kryddiga smaker av malört, enris, salubrin och karemelliserat socker. Ganska rå men åtminstone lite smaklager och komplexitet. Gott
From Beer Market La Louvière :: ABV:12,8% >> Bière rougeâtre sans col. Cette Alvinne exhale de forte senteurs de caramel, de raisin, de barriques vineuse, de sucre avec une petite acidité. Attaque alcooleuse, fort ronde offre d'imposante saveurs caramélisées. Après la bouche, pesante et épaisse, quasi liquoreuses accompagnée d'arômes tanniques boisée livre un maltage chocolaté accompagné de saveurs tanniques poivrées et vanillées qui piquent la langue en laissant une impression poudreuse. Les arômes fruités au raisin pèsent au surplus sur les papilles au point de masquer toute saveur houblonnée. Finale est légèrement acide. Mais je reste avec un langue collante.
Bottle @ Home. Pours slightly hazy very dark brown with a small offwhite head, light lacings. Aroma of malt, belgian yeast, candy sugar, dried fruit, dates, little wood, little red wine, alcohol. Flavor is sweet, rich malt, caramel, rich candy sugar, dried fruit, notes of licorice, wood, light red wine, alcohol. Full body, oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation, sweet finish with lots of warming alcohol. 231217
500ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Dec 17, courtesy of myself. Pours a reddish deep amber, off-white head. Aroma is red wine, smooth lightly sweet. Massively complex character, yet balanced, with subtle red wine, caramel with a sugary sweetness. Exceptionally sweet yet drinkable.
Owl Farm, Brooklyn tap: pours dark brown with a small head. Aroma is vinegar, woody, winy, and dark fruits. Taste is somewhat sour. Plums and stuff. Some sweetness. Alcohol is well covered. Pretty nice.
This is absolutely delicious. A slight sour, reddish color and tasty flavor. Tastes nowhere near 14%. Stellar beer!
A very potent quad, basically Land van Mortagne aged on Pomerol wine barrels - sounds exclusive... Bottle from Dranken De Moor, lot n° 732, best before October 2017 so I'm just in time apparently - though there is no doubt that a beer like this could show interesting flavour developments with longer cellaring. Strange that this one escaped my attention so far, it is not the rarest Alvinne around it seems and I did have a few other variations on the same theme before. Anyway: slow gusher, but manageable if you act quickly. Regular, medium thick, pale greyish beige head, quickly dissolving in the middle under influence of the alcohol, but retaining around the edge as a thin but steady, creamy ring; lightly hazy, deep 'autumny' copper-hued burgundy bronze robe with darker dots of yeast throughout. Strong, perfumey, beefy bouquet of sweet and very ripe blue grapes, old tawny port, figs soaked in 'jenever', old caramel candy and burnt brown sugar, vanilla-coloured wet oak, blackcurrant, soggy brown bread, dry red wine indeed, dusty wood, plums, medlar, varnish, hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, damp soil, wet hay, parsley, vague beef stock, brown honey, gingerbread, sour red apple hint. Fruity, sweetish onset with expressively souring edges to it, lots of old raisins, blue grapes, blackcurrant berries and ripe blackberries, softly carbonated with a full but smooth and lean, vinous mouthfeel, yet not as syrupy as I expected from a beer of this formidable strength - feels more like 9-10% ABV actually. Deeply caramelly malt sweet middle (including residual brown sugariness but not too cloyingly so) with a lovely deeper nuttiness to it, some soft breadiness too, but 'hardened' a bit by a thin iron-like 'metallicness' at its edges, unexpectedly. The aforementioned fruit impressions continue unabated, flowing towards a rich, deep, immediately warming finish, where an earthy, mild hop bitterish accent balances the sweetness. So does the wood, which in the end becomes very pronounced, leaving behind a dry tannic feeling, like in - indeed - a great, dry red wine, whether it be Pomerol or something else. The oak is outspoken enough to even release its vanilla-ish scent retronasally and all the way at the back, as is so often the case with wine barrel-aged beers, a genuine red wine flavour shows up, adding colour and complexity, though a case could be made for it not matching too well with the flavour properties of the beer itself... Lastly, in a 14% ABV beer, there is no way to escape the alcohol, but here it just warms up the throat and chest to a high degree, yet still without becoming obnoxiously wry or overpowering. It can be stated that managing to keep the alcohol at this level of elegance and in this position in a beer of this strength, is a task not easily accomplished. I have been following Alvinne, pioneers in bringing international tendencies to the Belgian market like the Struise did in roughly the same period, since their first ever beer (a simple but very correct blonde), and I must say that the more experience I gathered with their range, the more I came to love their work. They opted for the hard way in bringing new movements and colours to a largely stagnant Belgian beer landscape and in spite of several failures, including heavy gushers and the like, they more often come up with inspiring beers, in which the spirit of all those old barrels resting in Moen, is conveyed in a very effective way. This is one such beer: lighter and less alcoholic than it actually is (a good Belgian beer drinker would therefore call it a "dangerous" or "treacherous" beer), sweet but with a lovely, deepening tartness all around provided by the wine barrels, noble and probably well-preserving over the years, this is one to cherish - and sample contemplatively on a dreary autumn afternoon. Glad I picked this bottle when shopping at Dranken De Moor, maybe I should have kept it for a longer period of time, who knows what potential this liquid still harbours... Not your most accessible, familiar Belgo-Dutch style quadrupel, for sure, but a rich, barleywine-esque, elegantly 'wild'-ish, thoroughly artisanal work of great gastronomical ambitions. Among the best Alvinnes so far for me, but I didn't have the chance to taste all of them as carefully and concentratedly as I am handling this one right now.
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Aroma is vinous with tannins. Very fresh still, despite old age. Taste is barley, yeast, tannins. Very full bodied. Complex and long-lasting aftertaste.
500mL bottle from Carwyn Cellars. BB OKT 2017?
Presents a murky sort of bronzy coppery sort of body with a small ring of off-white foam - looks pretty good really.
Rather intense nose - has that twang indicating some sourness & funk amongst rich caramels, porty vinous notes, fair whack of oak, nutty, spicy, almost rancio-like - rustic AF.
Rich body, some acidity cuts through, spice & oak adds tannin, booze warms - very long!
Very complex - figs, sultanas, oak, vinous red fruits, dark caramels, lots of woody spice, slightly smokey, funky, buttery, vanilla as it warms, touch of funky balsamic tones emerge too.
Serious brew - so much going on, typical rustic Alvinne affair; love it!
Borefts 2017 day 2. Dark amber with creamy offwhite head. Big sweet syruppy caramel malts, sherry grape most, balsamic. Big sweet and mild sour and bitter. Full body and soft carbonation. Nice one.
Bottle. Brownish-amber color. Aroma: barrel, wine, caramel, plum wine, dried fruits, good. Powerful taste, plum wine, raisins, oak, light sourness, strong and tasty.
33cl Bottle @ LaBIRRAtorium, Madrid, Spain
Reddish brown colour with a thin white head.
Aroma is malt, caramel, ripe fruits, berries, yeast.
Taste follows the nose.
Medium to full body, average carbonation.
Draft at Jealous Monk. Pours Coca Cola brown with a thin khaki head. Leaves trace lacing in the glass. Big wood and red wine notes on the nose. Solid roasted malt on the tongue along with some wood notes. Hides it’s booze very well. Solid.