Cantillon Vigneronne

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Tap @ gingerman NYC served in a 12 oz tulip for $12. Cloudy gold with a thin white head, and nice lace. Aroma is sharp with lactic acid, lemony citrus, and a distinct apple juice/cider character. Flavor also had this apple must, along with hints of grape husk and tannin, sour, acidic, lactic, brett, funky, and tart in the end. Pretty smooth overall with a moderate acidity relative to other cantillons. Very nice overall.

Bottle. Golden coloured with no head. Low carbonation. Very fruity . kinda lemonadeish. A bit to sweet for me.

Rating #900! 750ml bottle cork disintigrated making the date unknown, though a severly dry cork may indicate some age. Pours a cloudy, murky orange/copper color with a few bubbles for a head. Nose is light must, some grape like hints, bits of mildew, barnyard. First sip is full of the funk, with some light notes of cheese, doughy, grape skins, very sour and lip puckering. A good natural carbonated feel to the body. Sourness swarms the mouth and takes no prisoners leaving my entire palate clenching for mercy.

Bottle. Cloudy orange with a hard fought for slim white head, soon gone. Aroma is tart, sour grapes, oaky and barnyard. Flavours are tart, sour, barnyard, sour grapes and quite acidic. Light bodied and low carbonation. Very good.

"Man they can put some tart in there poured a cloudy orange color no head. Aroma was yeasty and musty. Flavor was hard to find cause of the tartness. apples and grapes."

Hazy orange pour with yeast residue happily floating in the glass, the head is thin and white. Strong aroma of barnyard and grapes. Good assertive flavor of barnyard and grapes with acidity and barnyard. The body is light with a dusty, cobwebby texture and low carbonation. It’s a very good lambic but it lacks some finesse and cohesion to be excellent.

Bottled 2004, cloudy yellow gold color, with a shy white head, but vanishing in a blink of an eye, the nose has a wet oaky wood note, hint of white grapes fruitiness and a touch of honey, still has the famous cantillon tartness, sourness and wineyness aspects in the aroma plus with an acidic and a leathery accent. Follows by the traditional lambic flavors, with a mild fruitiness character from the muscat grapes used, who seems to come first, following by the sharpness of the beer, but being less agressive than the other cantillons, the brettanomyces are doing their job again, with the tartness, sourness, oakiness notes, leading towards a dry winey finish.

(Bottled. 03/2006). Oh my god. This is incredible. Aromas of dirty gym socks. Complex tastes that do not deserve my feeble attempts to describe ’em. Get a bottle and drink it and shame on you if you pour it out. Suffer through this one no matter what you do ... it is worth every agonizingly wonderful sip.