Cantillon Saint Lamvinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Aroma:smell same think like the other cantillion,light acid and sour... Apperance:verry hazy reddish,light pink head... Flavor:dry sour flavor...no palate...

The pour reveals a cloudy reddish brown color with a ring of white lace. Strong aroma of tart and sour fruits with some barnyard. Excellent flavor of sour and acid fruits (grapes?),barnyard and it is also dry. The mouthfeel is dusty and the body is light while the carbonation is gentle. Excellent lambic but maybe not worth 30 US$.

Perhaps one of my greatest regrets is not being able to lug more bottles from Cantillon home. A great example. Tanins play against the sour brett, the result being a complex symphony of flavors only those brave enough to endure the assault will enjoy. Right up there with the vigeronne ... and after all, which is better? Red wine or white?

Sampled at the "let’s piss off Clark" tasting, thanks goes out to Beerbuzz for this one, which must have cost him mucho dinero.

Lovely opaque, freshly crushed cranberry juice, the pearly white head was nice. A few flakes didn’t rain on it’s parade too much.
Wow, get your nose close to your glass and the aroma just grabs you by the collar and pulls you in. As funky as I’ve ever smelled from this brewery, which is saying a lot. It smelled like red life savers, grapes and hay mixed in horse shit. How could I possibly like this? But I just do, maybe I’ve got scatologic tendancies...
Bone dry and decent mouth-puckering acidity, it was very well attenuated. The fruit was sort of there but it was more like freeze-dried grape peels. The last time I had this was in Belgium and it had much more wine-like characteristics, but I think I liked this bottle better, the aroma sold me.

[ Bottled ; chilled ; 2004 vintage ]
A fully diminushing small fizzy white/pink head that tops up a hazy light red /brown/pink body. No lacing. Few thick black particules. No bubbles. Very dry nose, acidic and funky tart... harsh hay ... brett at its best. Oak is definitly there and red wine is subsequent, but present.

750 ml bottle, 2004, Montreal Sourheads gathering on February 26 2006. Translucent, dirty-rusty pinkish orange with a touch of head and lots of visible black yeast particles....nose is extremely dry, sour and funky with hints of old dry grapes lingering amidst the brett, light woody character emerges with more sniffing....the nose dry as it is hardly prepares one for the arid nature of the body, sour and smooth, with very subtle hints of apple and grape blending effortlessly and merging into a seamless light acid fruitiness that lingers long after the supple, airy liquid is gone....interestingly, the flavor profile really doesn’t change much from first sip through last, from the front of the palate through the aftertaste; its not the most complex of Cantillons, but amazingly drinkable for all its dryness.

Brewed in 2004, poured in a champagne flûte, hazy reddish brown hue, with an off-white pinkyish head, the nose is one of a nice traditional lambic, with acidic, tart and oaky notes, with the usual cantillon trademark yeast in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied dry palate with some winey flavors, coming from the merlot grapes used in this lambic, with some nice tannic notes, great oakiness, and maybe a less dry in the mouth, but still has his sourness taste, leading towards a slightly dry and tart finish.

Bottle: Poured a medium red color lambic with a huge bubbly head with average retention. Aroma is sour with some touch of sweetness. Taste is quite a surprise with less acidity then I would have expected from Cantillon with a nice balance between the grapes and the lambic. Carbonation is quite strong and body is quite light. Well balance tart and sweetness with the grapes less dominant then expected. Probably one of the only Cantillon that I wouldn’t mind drinking a whole 750ml by myself on a hot summer day.