Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

pours hazy reddish / pink / orange head white fizzy. Nose: Sour, Funky Raspberries, hints of oak. Taste: Tart, Sour funky Raspberries with a subtle oak finish.

12 oz bottle into flute, served at cellar temp 50F. 2007 vintage (noted on cork, which was still fresh looking and unstained). Truly beautiful color -- slightly hazy pinkish/orangish/reddish -- with collapsing white fizzy head. Very pungent aroma tat fills the room upon opening. Nose: tart cherry skins, sour apple, fresh sweet raspberries that go well with the sour character (a sweetness that is in no way artifical, as the story in the "Commercial description" implies), and a trace amount of funk. Flavor is WOW! Certainly the direst, mouth-puckering, tartest lambic I have had to date. Starts of with a champagne like gueuze backbone accented by a tart raspberry flavor (all raspberries, no apple or cherries in the flavor, and no sweetness), that leads to an abrupt and superbly dry finish that leaves my mouth as dry as the Sahara. The palate is on par with the style - light and fizzy - but I prefer a flatter body (more akin to the unblended lambics), which accounts for the 3 instead of 4 or 5 rating I gave it for Palate. Overall: Cantillon kicks ass again! All their beers are so unique yet drawn together with a uniformity that I can’t wuite put my finger on. This stuff is brilliant and certainly not for the faint of heart. If you like it in your face, dry, and unique, seek out RdG!! P.S. this beer has one of the greatest labels of all times!

375ml Bottle: Aroma of sour raspberries. Poured pink/grapefruit juice in color with a medium-sized, rocky, fizzy, white and pink head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Very sparkling. Full of small and large particles throughout. Flavor is heavily sour. Tastes of sour raspberries. Light to medium body. Tingly texture. Lively carbonation. Tart raspberry finish.

2008 Bottle. Seems a bit young. Pours with a pinkish head and a red body that is on the clear side of things. Good lacing. Aroma is raspberry seeds, light funk and a woody note. Taste is sour, but not strongly so, a bit watery with light raspberry flavor. Needs some more time on it. Seems unfinished. Lively, dry and puckering mouthfeel.

Aroma is of cough syrup with some wine - you can smell how sour this beer is even from the aroma. There are some rasberries in the nose as well. The flavor is of sour wine with lots of vinegar. Slight tarty finish. Medium mouthfeel with very light carbonation - almost none whatsoever. Not a bad Lambik at all! Did not disappoint!

Dégusté avec french tickler le 24 mars 2007. Orange pinking poor with no effervescence. Aromas of humidity, raspberries, a hint of cherries, green apples and rhubarb. Flavors are of raspberries, very sour and acidic. Dry mouthfeel with added rhubarb. Extreme sourness. Intense full bodied palate with exceptional purity. darkguardian (224), Florida, USA

14oz bottle. Amazing nose of sour wood, super tart berry, some cheese and a bit of barnyard. Pours mostly clear red with a pink fizzy head. Medium carbonation that makes this fairly drinkable. Extremely tart and slightly sour (not what I was expecting but this is a young bottle, Oct 2008) Lots of wood and brett up front medium acidity with a fresh raspberry burst in the finish. Beautifully crafted, I can tell this will age really well. Lingering aftertaste of sourness that is strong on he lips with nice tones of raspberry and vanilla oak. This is a very very dry beer, probably one of the driest I have had. Amazing as usual from Cantillion. I paired this with a Cave Aged Swiss Gruyere and they went fantastically well together.

375 ml bottle. Hazy orange body with a small, dense off-white head. Aroma is barnyard, wet cardboard and acidity cellar notes. Flavor is very refreshing, a bit harsh fruitiness and much more harmonic and pleasent than these words sounds. Well made, refreshing, light carbonated and very nice.