Cantillon Vigneronne

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

On tap @ the Hop Leaf. 1/25/07 Well I was hoping for St. Lamvinus, but this will have to do. Hazy brown orange color with a small beige head. Sour and earthy aroms, hay, grain, a little funky, but nice. Smooth like most cantillon beers are, sour, tart, green and white grapes. Tasty lambic.

Bottle thanks to Andrew for sharing. Pours clear orange yellow. Sour tart funky and earthy nose. Tart sour citrus with vinegar flavors, solid beer. Comes together well. 8/3/8/4/16 = 3.9

hazy golden in appearance. Pretty big off white head. Aroma is very funky, with a extremely strong herbal note or it definitely could be rotting moldy socks or something of the like. This characteristic was not as strong in the taste but still definitely there. This one really didn’t work for me personally.

Supplied by my cousin for a tasting after Christmas dinner. poured pale orange, with a sour, acidic aroma. Sourness is cut a bit by the sweetness from the grapes. Finishes dry and woody. Very enjoyable.

Poured a hazy golden with a fizzy white head. Usual Cantillon funk aroma, though this particular variety had some feet and sweatsocks thrown in for good measure. Flavor is very sour but somewhat one-dimensional, with only the slightest hint of grape. Very sour, funky, salty like testicles. Shouldn’t have had this one after the Cuvee, because the Cuvee blew it away.

on tap at hopleaf. pours a beautiful hazy tangerine color with almost no head. aroma is very tart, orangy, vinegary, and slight funk. flavor is very tart and sour (more like a gueuze) with some faint undertones of white grapes. finishes tart with chardonnay qualities. i was expecting more from the muscat grapes but after getting settled with this i begin to fall for the subtleness of the fruit. enjoyed a lot but this isn’t one of the best from cantillon.

Too date on of the most amazing beers I have ever had, tart champange like complex and sour. Shared this beer with Neil Herbst owner of Alley Kat after one of camRA’s real ale fests. Page 101 0f Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide only 441 Classic Brews to go out of 500.

750ml into tumbler. Purchased by my mom at Discount Liquor, Milwaukee, as a NYE gift. Overall: different in small ways from Cantillion gueuze, but pretty much straightforward Cantillon quality lambic (which might be disappointing if you were expecting more muscat).

Superficial: Pale hazy orange with a "now you see me, now you don’t" fizzy white head. No lacing, no racing. Smell is not intense, but persistent and pervasive, wafting out of the bottle and glass to fill the immediate area with aromas of sour brett, cardamom, dried apricot and sour grape.

First impressions: Good Cantillion sour bomb at first (like gueuze), lemony; feel is a bit thin and watery after the sour subsides; not much of the yeasty spiderwebs I expect on the top of my tongue in the finish; 20 sec after swallow comes the faint and thin muscat flavor promised on the label.

Deeper: The middle does have some dark yeasty/spidery things that remind me of Girardin White Label, plus some corriander. Also, this is distinctly salty right after the swallow, a nice counterpoint to the juicy sourness. Beginning of the finish is vaguely like a nutty cheese, like gouda.

Bottle, 2005 vintage at Akkurat. So first of all , this had some age on it... I didn’t have the regular gueuze to compare with, but to me, this seemed pretty much like Cantillons usual stuff. Couldn’t really pick out any grape character at all, luckily I have a really fresh vintage waiting in the wings and I’m eager to see if that’s going to make a difference. Re-rate, 2006 vintage. Yup.. drink this as fresh as possible for maximum grape character.. what a difference!