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== Description ==
Cantillon Vigneronne is a grape lambic produced yearly from Italian white grapes; most often of the Muscat varietal, though it depends on the harvest. It Vigneronne is bottled in 75cl bottles and is generally bottled sometime between mid-October and late-November. Though the brewery states that it is only available in 75cl bottles, Vigneronne was also available in 37.5cl bottles on at least two occasions in 1999 and 2005. The fruiting process for Vigneronne consists of taking fresh grapes and placing them whole (without stems) into stainless steel tanks with two to three year old lambic for a saturation period of 1-2 months. It is then transferred to a stainless steel bottling tank until it is ready to be bottled.
== History / Other Notes ==
On Cantillon's official website they state the brewery states that "the name Vigneronne Cantillon was given in 1987" with a bottling presumably produced in 1989, though its history dates back much further than that. Jean-Pierre Van Roy first experimented with a white grape lambic in 1973,<ref name="CantillonVigneronne>http://cantillon.be/br/3_105 Cantillon - Vigneronne</ref>, as well as a bottled version known as [[Cantillon_Druivenlambik_(Cuvée_Neuf_Nations)|Cuvée Neuf Nations]] in 1987 with lambic brewed in 1985. The label design for Vigneronne has remained relatively unchanged in both the imported U.S version and the European version of Vigneronne remaining relatively unchanged since its creation by artist Raymond Goffin in 1989.
This beer was previously named Gueuze Vigneronne , however the word Gueuze was eventually dropped as it is not a blend of 1, 2, and 3 year lambic.<ref name=Summit11>Dan Shelton, 2010, [[The_Lambic_Summit_2010#Part_11|The Lambic Summit, Part 11 (Shelton Brothers)]]</ref>
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