Brasserie Cantillon Don Quijote

Don Quijote

 

Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lambic Style - Fruit Regular Out of Production
Score
8.19
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 19
Cantillon Don Quijote is a grape lambic from 2008 made with Italian table grapes. This beer was produced for Franco Fratoni (Livingstone Club, Florence, Italy) and Umberto Santi (Goblin Pub, Pavullo Nel Frignano, Italy). It is listed as 5% ABV.

The grapes used in Don Quijote are called Uva Fragola – literally “strawberry-grape” – and were given the name due to their strong strawberry-like aromatic characteristics. A North American import to Europe and known in English as Isabelle grapes, Uva Fragola falls under the Vitis labrusca species of grape rather than the traditional wine grape family of Vitis vinifera, and Italian and European law forbids the official marketing or sale of wine using it
 

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 75 cl. Tasted double blind. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a cloudy reddish amber with a creamy off-white head. Bretty nose, loads of barnyard and manure. Medium body, low carbonation, a little tart berries and a ton of barnyard. Slightly salty. Ends dry but not overly sour. 190211
Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2011 at 04:06

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9
#5 hvid at yespr blind tasting. hazy orange, smooth white head. aroma is sour, leather , very well balanced, very nice flavor is pretty sour, well balanced, none of the bad flavors sometimes found in sour beers. clean.
Tried on 20 Feb 2011 at 02:32

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
75 cL bottle, trade with kappldav123. Pours hazy orange to amber with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, wineous and distinct barnyard. Citric, acidic and sharp wineous. Lingering fruity, brett and acidic. Wineous acidic finish. Nice.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2011 at 00:46

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Bottle shared by callmemickey at Alan’s tasting. Pours red apple with white head. Nose of berry funk, tart fruits and yeast. Taste is lots of berry funk, tart fruit, yeast and earthy grapes. World class.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2011 at 21:45

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Bottle shared with Travlr and Livingstone: Poured a reddish ruby with pink tints, hazy white head. The aroma is sour grapes, fruit, nice funkiness. The taste is up front sour, mellows into fruit strawberry. Dry oak barrel finish. I don’t normally dig lambics, however this stuff is liquid gold.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Oct 2010 at 12:56

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Thank you Greg for sharing this bottle at the LCBS 10. WoW!!! The beer poured ruby red with a small pink head. The aroma was grape and carbonation. The taste was fantastic with grape flavors headlining the bill. Providing the backbeat were tart citrus and straw notes..... Amazing.......
Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2010 at 23:50

9.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 10 Texture 8 Overall 10
37.5 ml bottle courtesy of Franco, shared with SHIG on Oct 16, 2010. Special thanks to Franco for sharing this one, and for spending a wonderful afternoon with us! Pours slightly hazy orange, medium white head. Aroma of strawberries, pineapple, slight raspberries, dust. Taste is acidic, very fruity with strawberries dominating. Good character and complexity already, but I can’t wait to see what happen to this one over time - it has great potential. I hope he and Umberto brew it again next year! 9-4-9-4-18. Next rating, 750 ml bottle shared with ajax25g on November 6, 2013. Poirs cloudy rose red color, thin pink head. Aroma is amazing, with attic dust and basement funk, with bright fruit in the background. Taste is softly sour cherries, strawberries, lemon. Dry finish. Amazing. Next taste, bottle shared with Franco in the opening moments of 2018. The fruitiest I have ever had, perfectly preserved over the years. Continues to impress.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2010 at 17:15

9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
Huge thanks to livingstone for that 37,5cl bottle. Looks really, really good, old-styled, creative name. Beer in the glass copper-brownish, small head. Moldy-old aroma. Starts intense sourish-fruity, lemon notes, also very light sweet notes in the background. Increasing fruityness, for a moment it reminds me of a good dry wine. Finish wonderful balanced, prickly. Long lasting finish. Very drinkable. I wish I had more of this and could drink a bottle every day!
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2010 at 11:49

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Faintly pink, thinning head, fed by lively carbonated hazy orange-flamingo beer. Intense aroma of red fruit & rosehips, with a slight taint of rotting - close to noble rot, but also to "’t putteke". Tart, dry, raspberry-like flavour, but way more delicate, wild (red) fruit or quetches, again this noble rot - or truffles - flavour peeking through. High acidity level, not for the fainthearted! Dry-out effect, puckeringly sour, very refreshing, some slickness, near filmy, at the back of the tongue. Aftertaste has totally exotic fruit (or blueberries!), something vinous and a jumble of acids. Absolutely unique - and hence un TRES grand merci à Glougloupdany pour ce merveilleux souvenir de voyage!
Tried on 15 May 2010 at 08:33