Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Brussels, Belgium

woody nose with crazy lambic aromas comming from all over. Beautiful pale color, opens with some straw, orange, and ends so rediculously tart

Thanks to Cmillward for the taste! Pours a cloudy golden color. Aroma is strong funk with apples, pears and lemon rind. Flavors are more funk and sour fruits with some vanilla and honey. Very good.

Great coloring of nice gold with some minimal white head. Good sour apple aroma, some pickle or other tart aromas. Excellent tartness, some cheese tasting at the start, ending in a clean apple leading again back to chedder. Very nice and smooth end, very little puckering in the mouth.

750ml bottle served in a stem glass. Vintage 2008. Lightly hazed gold, a bit darker than most lambics, with zero head. smell/taste were: barnyard funk, aspirin, lemon, oak, straw and a hint of onion. Palate was thin and slightly astingent. No carbonation. Reminded me of a sour white wine. Doesn’t feel as balanced as the blended lambics that Cantillon makes. Also I think I may have liked it better if it had a bit of carbonation.

Bottle 2002. Orange colour with absolutely no head. Very sour, tart, funky, sour fruit, lemon, cheese, oak. Flat with no carbonation to speak of. I need to try this one again in a less intoxicated state.

Tomato, lime, dirty hay, sweat notes. Crisp, spicy hops and cedar. Some cider notes as well. Acidic but still enjoyable. Left me salivating (literally!) for more.

Bottled 2003. Not completely still, but almost so. Clear gold colour. Crazy funky aroma dominated by a toasted sesame seed aroma quite reminiscent of Sesame Wheat biscuits. There’s also a bit of garbage water and olives. Loads of crazy shit going on, but whilst it smells good, I don’t think it’s great. Starts with a light, brief sweetness, then becomes sour, then bitter and salty in the end. Loads of bitter blue cheese flavours and quite a vinegary, salad dressing sourness. Some astringent woody flavours too. Quite a rough flavour, but not as sour as Rosé de Gambrinus. Loads of really great flavours, but I’m not sure it all melds in together like it should. The bitterness particularly clashes with the sourness, which is sometimes good, but often annoying. I must say I don’t really get the single malt comparison at all. For what it’s worth, this was quite a lot like my own home-brewed pLambic, only a lot more sour, so that at least made me feel good. Got a couple of bottles going into the cellar, hopefully in a couple of years this will be awesome.
RR: Label says 1999, cork 2003 - weird. This seems a fair bit thinner and sharper than the fresh lambic. Vinegary salad dressing, dried apricots and toasted sesame seeds. Kind of a hard mouthfeel, and quite bitter. It seems a bit out of balance for mine, though the aroma is still pretty incredible. I always thought this would be my favourite Cantillon, but it’s not even close, really.

Yellow color no head. Vinegar aroma and ofc vinegar flavour. A speciel beer type so wine-like, but this is one of the best of them.