Cantillon Vigneronne

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.

Orange, hazy appearance. Extremely refreshing. Muscat notes. Very fruity and not artificial at all. A beer of exceptional quality.

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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Bottled:
Intensive lambic aroma, flavor has much acid, cider, lemon and grapefruit notes. Few notes of winegrapes.

(on bottle)Abricotcolour and very apple-like with a very big barley taste; in all the acidicy and tartness. i can actually taste the grapes, they adds some smoothness and a surton tanin-feel. Fresh overall impression.

Aroma: farmhouse, hay, and slight sweet grape smells
Appearance: light yellow, bubbly, small white head
Flavor: sour lambic flavors, with sweet farmhouse flavors, and just a tinge of muscat grapes. Excellent!
Palate: very smooth with a sour bite. Light, sweet muscat aftertaste
Overall: Very nice beer, went well with our halibut dinner.

The lady and I opened this bottle while sitting out by the pool in the evening sun on a summer day. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a more appealing beer: murky slightly dark yellow with a white glowing head, the first taste I can sense the white grapes, and the aroma has that house Cantillon scent... barnyard qualities, along with a stenchy wheat and grain that is unrivaled. Flavors towards the end are more robust wheat and burlap tones, with the muscat grapes evident only slightly, which to me is a bonus in that the fruit used in no way overpowers or dominates the base lambic. Couldn’t have asked for a better lambic to fit the mood.

Bottled: Murky yellow coloured. No head. Good sourness. Light fruity sweetness. Light vinegar Flavour is like tasting sodapops. Has a light sourness, some sweetness. Nice wheat charackter. A little thin in the end. is fresh and cleansing.