8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Clear light pink pour with a white head. Bubblegum vinous bouquet. Great vinous notes. Kinda on the sweeter side with almost no funk or barnyard. Good body and mouthfeel.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

750ml bottle from Liquiderie in Paris. Pours a lightly hazy orange with a ring of white head. Nose is soft, some grapefruit rind, some orange natural wine, classic Cantillon acetic and lactic nose. Flavor has some earthy character. Loamy? Clay? The grape and the base go well, but I can't help but wonder if it's missing some oak tannins. Also is this a 1-2-3 blend because it feels young too. Maybe that's the absence of oak. It's good, don't get me wrong. It's so soft and drinkable. You honestly would never guess you were drinking something grain based. Tart finish, almost full bodied.

8.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared at the brewery. Slightly hazy salmon orange with a white head. Aroma of rose wine, grapes, earthy stone notes and light yoghurt. Flavour is light moderate sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

0,75l from bottle at the brewery. Yellow hazy color, small white head. Smells funky, parfumy, spices, grassy, minerals, peppery. Very nice smell. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes citric, grassy, grapes, white wine, peppery, tannins, light sweetness. Finishes dry and light to medium sour with notes of grapes, citric and tannins. Lovely

9,4,8,4,17

9

Nose: super fermented grape, palate: sweet, like peaches, gummy notes

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle at Cantillon. Pours a cloudy pink with small pinkish white head. The aroma is strong grape must, oak, funk, mineral, earth. Slick body, sweet grape, pink lemonade, light funk, oak, nice tartness, enjoyed this.

8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

New Cantillon grape lambic, with Trousseau grapes this time (a common variety perhaps most famously used in port wine in Portugal, among many others), and not aged in oak barrels, but in clay amphoras, something they did a few times before with other lambics. Thick and moussy, snow white but vaguely pinkish-tinged, largely stable head on an unusually but attractively rosy- to salmon pink beer with an even almost lilac tinge. Aroma of rosé wine, roses, clay, yoghurt, green pear, lime juice, stale sweat (stronger when warming up), apple juice, grape seed oil, blue grapes. Fruity onset of course, but somehow a bit restrained, at least in comparison with the other Cantillon grape lambics I had that day; the Trousseau grapes are nevertheless obvious enough, in a delicate, vinous, rosé wine-like way, flanked by impressions of rhubarb and red apple, softly but minerally carbonated - the minerally aspect clearly enhanced by the clay of the amphoras. Slender cereally core, lots of delicate grape juice, lime and sour red berry effects overhead, with the lactic sourness piercing through everything with both fruity and drying effect; grape seeds and skins offer tannic effects which linger in the end, along with a sweaty-funky note and ongoing fruit and lactic acidity. Elegant, subtle 'apéritif', like a dry rosé wine or a lambrusco, but based on experiences with earlier 'amphora lambics' I was expecting a more outspoken clay flavour.

8.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

14/VIII/21 - 75cl bottle, shared @ Cantillon brewery (Brussels), BB: n/a, bottled: 13/I/21 (2021-787) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

A little cloudy slightly pink beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, lots of berries, juicy, bit herbal, some nettles, very nice stuff! MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, sweet, juicy, little bitter, nice one! Aftertaste: bit acidic, juicy, grapes, slightly sweet, peppery touch, very nice one!

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Almost rosé-like orange look with white head. Aroma is a bit grappa-like, probably from the amphore, no funk, grape juice too. Taste is juicy grape juice, a touch of funk, wood too. Oily mouthfeel with natural carbonation. Feels almost like Fanta wine. Smell is a bit weird, but the flavour is very juicy.