Cantillon Vigneronne

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

37.5 cL bottle, cheers Jeppe! Pours hazy to murky orange with a fully diminished white head. Classic dry Cantillon barnyard aroma with a light citric touch. Flavour is nicely balanced between fruity grapes notes and a solid acidic/citric brett dryness. Tart fruity flavour following with a solid wooden note. Nice citric bite in the finish.

Bottle, picked this up from Dranken Geers, Gent, consumed 18-04-08 Golden moving towards an orangey colour, some haze but any head that was there had disappeared by the time I’d turned around an put another CD on. Has a gentle sweetness ’honeylike’ that counteracts the sourness marvellously. There is a very wine like character to this and it really is quite wonderful, the usual full on sharp and very tart assault on the tastebuds is slapped down big style by the grapes. I feel like I should be laid out sipping a glass of this on a grassy bank whilst a slow moving babbling brook gently provides a nice coolness to the warming sun and with the chattering of birds in the background.

Shit, my rating was erased. Anyway, I got a lot of oak out of this in the aroma, some sweet grape and classic gueze-like nuances. Flavor is sweet grape, sour gueze, some malt and sugar. Very mouthpuckeringly sour and finishes crisp and oaky. Very solid.

Bottle. Vintage 2005. Courtesy of Jeremy from Den Tatoverede Enke. Pours a quite hazy orange colour with a fast disappearing fizzy whote head. Nce sour aroma with mold and soil. Good mouthfeel. Sour and mouldy, soft sweet citrus well balanced flavour.

Bottle [2005], bought @ Den Tatoverede Enke, Cph.
[thank you, Jeremy]
Pours hazy yellow with an impressive creamy white head that disappears almost instantly. Aroma has citrus, funk, tart grapes, barnyard and light flowery. Light carbonation. Flavour is heavily citric tart at first, light moldy. Nice grape flavours and a good doughy character behind the tartness. Very white wine-ish.

(3/12/08) Bottle at Bier Circus in Brussels. Hazy pale orange with a small white head. A unique vinous aroma with some Muscat grapes notes, some Lambic funk and nice fresh fruitiness. Dry sour flavor with some of the familiar citric tartness but also some white wine fruity (white grapes, apples, some peaches) tone that adds a very interesting aspect to the flavor. Medium-bodied. The back of the label pretty much sums it up "A delicate compromise between white wine and beer" – another successful experiment from Cantillon.

Thanks to Michael for this one. Gold body, and no head. Sour aroma, detection of apples. Flavor is sour, acidic, and bretty. Really quite delicious and a pleasure to share.

Murky yellow color with very little head. Aroma was sour, similar to vinegar (surprise surprise), and had a bit of astringency similar to grape skins. Tasted like sour, dry, grape skins and a bit of other funk. Light body and very little carbonation. This beer was on tap at the Maduro. I think I like it better than my score indicates, but it is what it is.