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Cantillon Vigneronne

Percentile
96
overall
Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit

Brussels, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4363.73/5.03.72/5.05%77.8Flute, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Vigneronne is a blending muscat grapes and lambic, the brewers and beer merchants produced the "druivenlambik" (grapes lambic). White grapes soaked in lambic. The fructose, which abounds in these fruits, enables us to make a beer which is more mellow than the Gueuze or the other fruit beers. The spontaneous fermentation, the ageing in the barrels for several years and the addition of grapes make it a distant cousin of certain white wines.
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 DougShoemaker (2856), Toronto, Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Jul 3, 2005  
Funky, fruity, and some barnyard greet the nose, sour peach notes too. Hazy apricot, no head. Taste is sour fruit, funky cheese. Quite dry, tart and acidic. Very good! Thanks for sharing mds.


 mds (2112), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/515/20
Jun 26, 2005  
bottle. 2004 cork. light golden-coloured hazy body and a small almost non-existent head. strong grape (skins) in the aroma, there is some funkiness but it’s not as pronounced as other Cantillon beers that I’ve had. Menancingly tart and unforunately I didn’t feel that there was much depth to the body. Grape flavour is prominent throughout with some grapefruit and lemon similarities. Dry like no other. Pretty good but not mind-blowing.


 mdi (573), Nebraska, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 19, 2005  
75cl, cork dated 2000. Big musky, hay..fair body, a bit tannic...golden color. Good, but the fruit is lost on me outside of the slight tannins, and I think I’d prefer the gueuze, which this resembles, outside of its massive funky nose.


 bkelley68 (467), Lakewood, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jun 11, 2005  
Orange/rust color. The aroma is initially sour, with the usual bret characteristics. But there is an underlying fruit thing going on, reminicent of a very tart sauvignon blanc. Very dry and sour flavor, but with a fruit presense throughout. Not as blisteringly sour as other cantilions I’ve had. The fruit is a very nice addition to the beer. Me like.


 shrubber85 (2878), Wallhalben, Germany
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jun 7, 2005  
Bottle. Sour white wine aroma - smells like German Federweisser. Medium yellow - slightly cloudy with no head at all. Primarily a sour taste with a dry white wine flavor. Very litlle sweetness. More like a gueuze than most fruit lambics. NIce, smooth and dry.


 Mads Langtved (2246), Copenhagen K, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 7, 2005  
Orange, hazy appearance. Extremely refreshing. Muscat notes. Very fruity and not artificial at all. A beer of exceptional quality.


 Cornfield (4925), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Jun 5, 2005    Updated: Jul 8, 2005
From a 2003 bottle, this has a pale orange color with a slight head. The aroma is that of a "mild" gueuze, mainly the acidic tartness from the wheat, with a mild trace of some fruit or other. In taste, it still is mainly like a "mild" gueuze, the difference here being that it feels as if one licked some grapes before drinking. I.e., the fruit here makes little change to my taste buds. Still, it’s a tasty, drinkable lambic.

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 Geiserich (1778), Vienna, Austria
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/513/20
Jun 2, 2005  
Bottled:
Intensive lambic aroma, flavor has much acid, cider, lemon and grapefruit notes. Few notes of winegrapes.



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