Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

bottle: pours a very dark brown colour with little to no head. aroma is very nice kind of sweet to start but a great funky sour creeps in, then a little fruit cherry and some kind of pit fruit, a little dried fig too. decent bourbon and a very good barrel aroma with great vannlla cream. wow the flavoru hits at all angles with funkiness, fruitness (cherries and figs) great amount of oak to with awesome vanilla hints a decent amount of malt lingers in the back of the palate a terrific finish on theis beer. a great choice for 700.

Very dark brown with light brown head. Sweet smell of chocolate and alcohol. Smells old and dusty. Sweet taste of berries with underlying sourness that takes over at the end. No more than average...

375ml 2007 bottle. Thanks a bunch to numbeercruncher for sending this my way. The first sniff was cherries and I expected something akin to supplication but as I poured this into my snifter I quickly realized that this is a totally different animal. Dark brown with red tints. It has a hint of cherry in the smell but there is a lot of barrel going on here, wood, whiskey. The taste is more bourbon barrel, wood, slightly sour interesting mix of flavors. Overall this was interesting but not something I will seek out again. The bourbon flavors are good but don’t seem to match up with the sour flavors and really start to wear on me after a while, I wonder what this beer would be like if they had only used wine barrels.... Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 10-19-2008 01:08:21

2008 bottle. The aroma is very nice. A mix of sour cherries, raisins, brown sugar, dark malt, oak, and a little bourbon. The pour is dark reddish brown with lots of floating yeast chunks, but little head. The flavor is a nice mix of tart cherries, oak, sour/tart funk, bourbon. Nice dry finish, tart and oaky with wine like dryness in the finish. Really good.

2008 Bottle. The beer pours a deep mahogany with a tiny tan head, that disipates quickly. The aroma is of sour cherries, dark caramel malts (raisins?), and mellow oak/bourbon. Wonderful. The flavor is well balanced between the sour/tartness from the cherries and the wild yeasts/bacteria and the deep caramel malts and vanilla like flavors from the barrel. The beer finishes with a tartness and slight tannic finish. The after taste is vanilla and sour cherries. I love this beer and this style. The mouthfeel is full yet not too big. This beer has many wine like properties in smell, taste and mouthfeel. This beer is extremely drinkable, but at 11% abv be careful. I could drink 10 of these no problem. I have to say that this is my favorite of the Lost Abbey yearly releases. Some of the special one-off sours are excellent, but I am really glad that this one is released every year. Can’t wait for the 09 due out soon.

2008 bottle from Schroppfy, thanks! Reddish dark brown color. Oak, malt, dark chocolate and cherries in the aroma. Odd mix of tartness, dark chocolate, the finest of cherry bonbons, licorice, oak and cherry liquor in the flavor. Very complex, strong and tart. Not a sign of the promised 11% ABV, excpt in the warming finish, but strong and powerful. And deceptively drinkable. World class beer.

Bottled sample via and shared with oakbluff. Amber brown in colour with moderate carbonation and a bit of haze. Aromas of supermarket produce department, cherry, funk, hothouse flowers, and rich pale malts. More fresh and juicy fruits and funk in the mouth, with the pale malts asserting themselves a bit more. A bit of drying wood on the finish. Very complex. Top notch stuff to say the least.

375 ml bottle shared with piscator34. Pours murky brown, minimal brown head. Nose-brown sugar stewed fruits, cherry. Taste- sweet thick malt, dark fruit, tart cherry. Finish dry oak, touch of alcohol heat. Very very complex.