This amazingly tasty beer, Grolsch Winter Vorst, is actually vintage 2001 and thus no longer in production. If you're lucky, you'll find a bottle. Believe me, you'll want to buy it! It is a very sweet, medium-bodied Dutch beer, far superior, in my opinion, to everything else by Grolsch.
The nose is sweet fruit, malt, marzipan, almonds, along with some rum and raisins. It has a taste to die for - woody and spicy... sweet and malt... perhaps some peaches, plums and vanilla in there as well. Wow, this was fantastic!! It had a spicy, malty aftertaste. It has a mouthfeel that warms you up inside... slightly bittery, but not imposingly so (mainly on the palate). Also on the palate in the texture of Grolsch Winter Vorst is a hint of its strong alcohol content. It's so very easy to go down, bursting with flavours, with a wonderful foamy head. My only hope is that this beer undergoes another vintage in the future.