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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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 JensenTaster (1585), Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Jun 1, 2005    Updated: Aug 23, 2005
(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.


 lilannie (383), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
May 30, 2005  
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.


 mj (4998), Colorado, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/105/518/20
May 30, 2005  
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.


 madsberg (4956), Søborg, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
May 29, 2005  
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.


 Styles (1653), Lincoln Park, Michigan, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
May 25, 2005  
Bottle courtesy of Wohlfs. Light golden color with no head. Aroma has very nice sourness to it, no white grape at all. Flavor has same sourness with a little vinegar and white grape. Finishes very dry.


 Terminus (1955), Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
May 16, 2005  
bottle-pours a pale/neon yellow hue with a small white head. big funk, vinegar, barnyard thing going on in the aroma-almost burns your nostrils! Some cherry notes as well. Very vineous both in aroma and in flavors with alot of sour grapes as well. interesting, but not my thing.


 chriso (4776), London, Greater London, England
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
May 7, 2005  
Pale orange colour. Reasonably funky and sharp, but there’s not much onvious contribution from then grapes. Whilst it could hardly be described as an easy beer, iIts certainly a mite more approachable and mellow (maybe even the slightest hint of sweetness?) than the usual Cantillon fare, but I’m not sure that’s a plus. Not bad, but one of Cantillons greats in my book. Bottled at the London Joet gathering, January 2005.


 Engelsmann (653), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Apr 24, 2005  
2005 tapping. Pours dark golden. Soft sweet lambic aroma. Very sweet, the taste of grapes is rather pronounced. Aftertaste is acidic funky



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