BeerSelect Brut D’Anvers Rozat

Aroma of indeed a lot of strongly vanilla-scenting wet oak wood (especially in the beginning, so near the top of the bottle, unsurprisingly), indeed calvados, ripe banana, melting butter, fried apples, sweet cider, minerals, pear jam, lychee wine, cava, freshly cut sweet basil leaves, chewing gum, dry straw, camomile tea, old powdery medicine, faint hints of tea, dust and grass. Sweet onset, very pronounced 'bubblegummy' banana ester (banana candy-ish almost) with sweet apple, pear and white grape notes, light sourish undertone enhanced by this fizzy, minerally carbonation - which, lively as it is, fizzes away on the tongue without painfully stinging it; supple, lean body (actually feeling lighter than its ABV - probably due to that lively carbonation), slick cereally and sweet-bready maltiness with minerally and slightly buttery side effects continuing well into a medium long finish, adding the tannins from the wood in a slightly astringent manner, that 'old crumbled medicine' effect, the 'powdery' bready-yeasty effect from the champagne yeast (including a vaguely champagne-ish flavour note), a very floral hop character (camomile, buttercup), an indeed clearly apple-ish calvados colour and warming, soothing alcohol, calvados-like but 'jenever'-like as well, while that banana ester keeps lingering.