Stingy with loads of blackcurrant jam, fruits, berries, honey and oakiness, hints of vanilla

From the magnum at Winter Affair 2026. Long, looong line for it - and just having read that only 14 bottles were made, I'm not shocked at all, though it must have been partly people seeing people wait and then FOMO-ing in... And the line wasn't just made worse by lone line hoppers (like Gurthnar hahah), those are okay, a person here and there is normal, but some quasi-human garbage made a parallel line a few minutes before the session started, 20 people or so long - not sure I've seen something like this at beer fests so far anywhere - south, east, north or west of Prague... pathetic really. But anyway, was the wait worth it, disregarding the rareness of it all?

Yes, yes it was. Murky red body. Fruity gummy caramel and vanilla in the aroma, berries. Vanilla, gum, wood, some berries, smooooooth taste, clean, pleasant honey and, yes, more vanilla - and, though intense, it somehow isn't too much. Excellent, eeexcellent flavored mead!

Tap at Zichovec Winter Affair 2026, diary of a lone line hopper :D
A bit too waxy hops (whatever I meant by this), but otherwise great, decadent, very tasty. Red fruity kind of stuff, with some sour cherryish tartness.