4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: JUN 15, 2009 Bottle. Beautiful red colour with a minimal pink head. Aroma and flavor: tart, massive sourness, lactic, cheese, minerals, and light cherry. Dry finish. Very tasty! Re-rated 090613.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours reddish brown. Slight white head and lacing. Nice tart cherry flavor. Finishes nice and dry, great to drink.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Muddy deep red colour with a fizzy white short head. Cellar like very sour fruity cherry aroma. Very good mouthfeel. Berry, grape fruity bit sweet and quite sour cherry flavour with a dry long lasting sour finish. Thanks a bunch for sharing Pinball.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
A little beer had soaked through the cork and was sitting between the cork and cap. 750ml bottle, 2005 vintage. Served from the cellar @ 50°. Aroma is horsey, fruity, citrusy, acidic, and reminiscent of a dank cellar. Reddish color with copper hues and a smallish white head that stays just a short amount of time. The initial taste is horsey and acidic with light tart cherries and lemon zest followed by a rush of barnyard, wet wool horse blanket & leather saddle, lesser floral notes, a touch of red wine, and background notes of tart cherries. The acid is bracing, but not over the top.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 37.5cl.
Pours a murky bright red colour with basically no head and no carbonation.
Smell is mostly cherries, also some cranberrys there.
Taste is also that of cherries and has a almost biting sourness to it, but a nice sourness, also gives a nice cherry aftertaste when going down.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Unappreciated at the table. Sour. Cherry/red fizz. A pleasant drink that does not overwhelm with sour. In fact, I would want more.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
This is the second bottle in as many days that I’ve needed a corkscrew for. Pours candy red, and pours like a syrup – it fell silently into the glass, with a minimal amount of fizz that rose to the top. This ought to be different. The aroma is startlingly tart – like sour cherry candy – almost seems like they added some of that powder that coats sour patch kids. Cherries, sour raspberries and cranberries. Some musty barnyard funk, too. Yikes. This one actually makes me pucker it’s so tart. I can detect the cherries, and what taste like raspberries as well, but the tartness just overpowers everything, and it’s very superficial. Extremely acidic, no balance, and little depth / complexity. Big disappointment – makes me wonder if it was a bad bottle.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Another score for Cantillon with this beauty. I’d have kept this one in storage for about 2 years, so for Thanksgiving it’s a good time as any to rip into this one.
The beer pours out a slightly hazy reddish/brown color with a slight pink at the edges with a pink foamy cap. Aroma is bitter/acidic (stomach acid) with some cherries, dust, and funk. Flavor was dry as a bone, with the subtle cherry flavor, lemony, and acidic. Great beer, enjoyed the bottle but not sure more than one I could do.
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