Cantillon Vigneronne

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

A slightly sweeter version of the lambic, still with the usual Cantiilon horse-blanket taste and dry sour finish.

Bottle… This beer rocks!... Cloudy light yellow ale with a small, creamy, white head. Decent retention. The nose is all about unadulterated barnyard funk – earth, crap, leather and sharp cheese. Medium-bodied and lightly creamy with effervescent carbonation. Sour, but not insanely so, with a green apple note. Gentle bitterness. Crisp, tart, dry finish. Another world class offering from Cantillon!

WOW! This is an absolutely fantastic beer. Pours dirty yellow with sediments floating around and a small, white head. The aroma is musty with notes of hay and fruit. The flavour is intensily sour with the classic lambic notes of barnyard, dust and dirt but with a wonderfull fruity and flowery muscat dimension.

Poured orange from the bottle with a nice big white head. Aroma was white grapes, hay, vinegar, barnyard and must. Taste was nice funk, more reserved than most lambics, white grapes, fruit and vinegar. Fairly nice overall. Much more accessible.

Very hazy grapefruit colored pour with a thin white head. Sour vinegar aroma with grape, earth, funk, and some lemony citrus. Very sour flavor, but just the right amount for me. Lots of winy grape flavor with wood and earth. One of the best fruit lambics I’ve had.

Bottle at EBF 08. Thanks Jacob. Yes, it’s got a lot of acid, lots of white wine grape flavours. Some good grape/green apple. Not bad at all.

This beer is some kind of wonderful. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. the aroma is nicely sour, tart and grainy with white grapes, citric acid, wild yeast, grape sweetness and a grainy sour roughness. Medium / light body with some smoothness and graininess to the body and light sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with definite tartness, but it is offset to an extent by the sweetness from grapes. There is a heavy amount of funk and extra grainy for a Cantillon. The finish is tart, citric, powdery and floral. This is so delicious and one of the easiest drinking lambics out there. Wonderful stuff.

2003 Bottle. I have had this one for a long time and decided I would try to get the taste of that DIPA out of my mouth. Liquid was all around the cap and the cork was wet. Pops out and shows no sign of carbonation. Pours out a yellowish brown color with a white head that goes away really fast similar to champagne. Smell is tart, with some grape smells, and oak. Smells sort of like champagne only a little more tart. Taste is sour as fuck. Holy shit. Probably one of the more sour beers I have drank. Not in a vinegar way either. Once I got used to it, this beer was very refreshing. Easy to drink. A little bit of oak cuts through the mix. Pretty good lambic actually. The grape flavors (if there were any) have faded from the taste and remain only in the aroma.