Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus

Description

Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus is a traditional raspberry lambic bottled regularly by Cantillon. Its fruit content is generally around 200g of raspberries per liter of lambic.

History / Other Notes

Raspberry (Framboise) lambic has a long, but inconsistent history with Cantillon. According to Cantillon's website, "Paul Cantillon mentions a higher number of bottles of Framboise than of Kriek in his inventory for 1909-1910"^[1], disappeared during World War I, then disappeared then sometime in the 1930's. In the 1970's the production of raspberry lambic started again at Cantillon. The name Rosé de Gambrinus first made an appearance on a bottle in 1986 with the base lambic having been brewed in 1984. It has been in Cantillon's regular lineup ever since. The imported versions to the U.S from Shelton Brothers currently does not use the terms 100% Bio/Organic, while the European bottling does.

It should be pointed out that there is no difference between the U.S and European versions. The labeling differences stem from different requirements by the United States versus the European Union in calling something organic. Cantillon currently does not meet U.S standards, but notes on their website that they have used 100% organically grown grain for their lambics since 1999. There have been slight variations to the Rosé De Gambrinus label design over the years, most notably clothing the woman, but it has remained generally consistent throughout its existence.

Bottle Log

Bottle date (mm/dd/yyyy)	Cork Date	Bottle Size	Label / Notes	Image Link
N/A	1997	750 mL	front label not glossy, no pink border, does not have back label	N/A
N/A	2003	375 mL		N/A
N/A	2004	375 mL	Naked lady label, not from the US.	N/A
N/A	2005	375 mL	Naked lady label, not from the US.	N/A
N/A	2005	750 mL		N/A
N/A	2006	375 mL	Naked lady label, not from the US.	N/A
03/26/2009	2009	375 mL		N/A
04/13/2010	2010	750 mL		N/A
06/17/2010	2010	750 mL		N/A
09/29/2010	2010	750 mL		N/A
12/29/2010	2010	375 mL		N/A
03/21/2011	2011	375 mL		N/A
12/22/2011	2011	750 mL		N/A
03/08/2012	2012	750 mL		N/A
09/28/2012	2012	375mL	Canadian import	N/A
02/14/2013	2013	750 mL	Naked lady label, not from the US.	N/A
02/18/2013	2013	375 mL		N/A
02/06/2014	2014	750 mL		N/A