Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

2007 bottle. Light pink our with some head. Aroma of tart raspberries, sourness, and funk. Flavor is sour, tart, tangy raspberries, funk. Light acidity, pucking and mouthwatering which is what I want. Really great, but glad i got the small bottle.

Thisone is tasted in the lambic-mode. It must have had some time on its way, but I don’t know how many years. It was more sour than expected, but used to Cantillons I was not surprised by the sourness, only by its supposed high age...which I don’t know. Okay, real fresh sourness in the grape way, no old rotten soil or so. Behaved flavor of rasps with grapecitrus added. Sticky mouthfeel and a finish which is very short.

750 mL; capped and corked [1996 version, sampled Jan. 2004]: I approached the expansive chateau that had the elegance of a royal castle and the modesty of the smallest peasant’s farmhouse. . . the air in the cavernous entry was thick with musty stone, but I was quickly ushered into a dinning room with a full spread of hors d’oeuvres: dry crumbly bleu cheese, gorgonzola, raspberry-mint tarts, piles of hard candies, crackers with freshly cracked pepper, onion stalks and the spread went on. . . I found a small cushioned chair in a hallway and enjoyed the mellow snack – there was a cool, crisp, moist draft in the air that brought the countless aromas to my nose from all ends of the mansion: limestone from the countless passages, cedar burning in the iron stove, oak and cherry coming from the library wood work, leather and hay (possibly from the sables). The evening will remain at the fore front of my mind for years to come – the moist raspberry tarts, dry chewy sourness and the softness of the atmosphere. . . lovely.

Bottle. Aroma is quite lively and musty: dust, and overripe raspberries. Pours cloudy bright ruby/pink. Flavor has some initial fruitiness that quickly diminish into a funky, woody, horseblankety tartness. Crisp, acidic with lively carbonation.

Pours pink and has some fruit on the nose.Flavor was of tart berries.Finish was a little strange.Can quite put my finger on it

Poured from a 750 ml bottle, vintage 2007. Thanks Mike! Bright, electric red, and opaque. Cheese and silage aroma, with lots of seeds and stems of raspberries, and less flesh. Some minerals, paint fumes, white pepper and lots of gravelly earth; the seed-stem notes are fairly forward throughout, and tend to bleed into the dusty funkiness otherwise notable. Too green, in general, and dormant a bit.

Flavor is reserved raspberries, soft pepper and a bit of floral bitterness; it’s elegant and detailed, if somewhat simple most often, and especially at the front; near the finish of each sip the sourness expands, and the farmhouse stinks expand, and it glows in a tepid balance of sourness, weird earthiness, and too-fresh fruit.

It still has a lot of the signature young-Cantillon roughness, but the acids are also quite buried yet; despite a somewhat acidic texture, the acetic and lactic flavors are still understated; finishes seedy and dry with lots of tannin, and unmemorably; far too young I think.

Beautiful pink and orange pour with no head. Nose is tart and sweet raspberries with a touch of brett funk, as is the flavor. Clean finish and delicate mouthfeel. Yum.

Pours an absolutely fantastic cloudy orange red color. Smells of raspberries and vinegar. Slightly pink head that dissapates quickly with some light lacing. VERY tart beer. Shocking at first but becomes quite appealing as your taste buds adjust. I won’t drink this often, but I will enjoy it when I do.