Vanilla Cinnamon Mead
B. Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.93
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A sweet mead made with whole cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans and aged on American oak. We slice each vanilla bean open by hand before adding to the mead to ensure maximum flavor extraction. Serve slightly chilled.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
another great mead offering by Tampa’s only bee lover, Tpd975. muscat wine like color, no head aroma, gorgeous vanilla nose with notes of cinnamon. flavors, lots of sweet honey, sticky syrupy mouthfeel with vanilla aplenty followed by a very subtle cinnamon adding mild touch of spices along with perfect notes of oak barrel. Warming palate.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2010
at 14:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Served at 48*F. Pours with a clear, very light, pale yellow body with decently strong legs. Aroma is dryish with a decently woodsy, grape note, cinnamon, vanilla cake, buttery and grassy. Taste is great! Liquid snickerdoodle cookie in a glass. Not overly sweet, cut by a lot of tannins. Nice, but strong alcoholic presence. Kind of thin for a mead of this gravity. Light effervescence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2009
at 23:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle brought to BCTC. Wow, you guys actually drank this one. Saving a half pour for a proper rate. Poured into my now sanitized baby Duvel glass. Alcohol is listed as between 12%-14%. Clover honey. Color is a clear bright 10k gold. Simple enough. Smell is pepper, slight citrus, plastic, & vanilla extract(yes, I read the label, real vanilla beans). Fumey, but not exactly what I want to smell. Taste is soft, slight with lemon honey. Midway, vanilla comes through gently, but quite in full. I can’t get the cinnamon. Vanilla is delicious. It lingers faintly, rolling on your lips, eventually turning powdery, fuming back through your nose. Apple-like citrus cuts with some light bitterness & a squeak of tartness. That shows early though. Sweet, but not repulsive, or even rich. Body is on the lighter side for mead. Still very much a delicate sipper. Alcohol is about as expected. If only for the smell, this would be divine. I so want to give this a higher score.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2009
at 01:08