Cantillon Moeder Lambic Fontainas Cuvée X Browsel
Description
Cantillon Moeder Lambic Fontainas Cuvée X Browsel is a gueuze blended for the 10th anniversary of Moeder Lambic Fontainas. It is a blend of 3 and 4-year-old lambic and was bottled in different bottle sizes (most of them being 750 mL. but it ranged from 375 mL to 3 liters jeroboams, though the latter never made it as they all exploded due unexpected higher pressure than other sizes and not being secured beside a regular cork which wasn't enough), as well as six 20 L and three 30 L kegs.
History / Other Notes
Initially blended in October 2019 and meant to be part of a city-wide lambic celebration during Cantillon's Quintessence event in 2020, this bottle was publicly released for the first time after the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 during the rescheduled Quintessence celebration. It was released to go at the Moeder Lambic/Cantillon Into the Wine event that same weekend. It is a blend of 70% 3 year-old-lambic (300 L of 3-year-old lambic from barrel T34 and 600 L of 3-year-old lambic from barrel T46) and 30% 4-year-old lambic (400 L of 4-year-old lambic from barrel S40).
This blend features ten different original labels created by the Brussels artist Pierre Coubeau aka FSTN, each representing parts of the back wall at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, which he designed.
Bottle Log
| Bottle date
(mm/dd/yyyy) |
Cork Date | Bottle Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| x/x/2019 | Season 19/20 | 375 mL | 48 bottles, never released |
| 10/02/2019 | Season 19/20 | 750 mL | 1134 bottles, released to go April 2022 |
| 10/02/2019 | Season 19/20 | 1.5 L | Some bottles raffled off during Covid-19 pandemic |
| x/x/2019 | Season 19/20 | 3 L | Jeroboam were filled but not secured, and they all exploded during the aging process. |