Christmas Mead
Lurgashall Winery in Lurgashall, West Sussex, England 🏴
Mead Regular|
Score
6.05
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Also known as Celtic Mead.
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Lubiere (24459) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A yellow mead with a strong aroma of clove honey, woody notes, like wet wood, and aniseed. In mouth, a smooth sweet honey with nice aniseed notes, quite smooth, warming alcohol. Interesting mead. Bottle from LCBO vintage, about 1 year old. Tasted Feb. 5 2011.
cheap (9533) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
From a bottle at the Vintage Estates. Sweet off aroma. Overly sweet on the palate. Not bad compared to other Lurgies I’ve tasted. Bready wine finish. What can be said, this stuff is wine.
yngwie (24278) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle, shared by Papsoe. As English Honey Mead. A clear, flat mead with a slightly golden color. Intensely sweet, honeyish nose with heather-notes and some alcohol. Sweet, honey-ish flavor with heather. Sweet and warming mouthfeel, and a lasting, sweet, heathery, warming finish. Medium to full body. A decent mead, but with too much heather for my taste. (090514)
fonefan (84534) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 50cl.Clear light to medium yellow color with virtually none head. Aroma is artificial honey, perfumed honey. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20090321]
Pinball (15907) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
botlte at papsø clear light yellow, small head. aroma is honey, sugar, slight alc. flavor is sweet honey, mild flavor. alc. noticeable when it burns, otherwise well hidden.
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fiulijn. Comes as "Lurgashall English Honey Mead". Pours a pale golden. Rather refined and somewhat perfumy honey aroma. Medium body, unclean and cardboardish with an underlying flowery honey note. 210309
MiP (20366) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 12.5% as Lurgashall English Honey Mead. Good sweet honey aroma, hint of wax. Very pale yellow colour. The flavour is rather sweet, there is a little rubbery feel to it. Mellow finish, but with a little peppery alcohol.
yespr (55501) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
50 cL clear bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with no head. Herbal, light chemical towards glue aroma. Sweet, honey and herbal from back of the nose. Sticking sweet actually with a nice honey herbal note coming through. Mild spiced into the far finish.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from International House of Cheese, Ludgate Hill, London
Pale color. It has a very strong aroma of flowers, more than honey. Sweet, not syrupy, with flower flavor and some honey. I like sweet drinks, but this Mead is not impressive.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Christmas Mead from Lurgashall Winery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Listed as Lurgashall English Mead. I have also seen the Celtic Mead available. Pours with a clear golden hue and some small alcohol legs. Aroma is of alcohol, butterscotch and really sweet Sue Bee Honey. Taste is fruity with honey, alcohol, vanilla, almonds, and dried apricots. Very thin mouthfeel for a mead, but preserves a sense of drinkability similar to a fruity sweet white wine.