The Statement
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
8.23
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The Statement is our balaton cherry mead – made with the highest quality Traverse City balaton cherries, carefully selected honey and twenty years of experience – having gone through more than a dozen iterations. Living up to it’s name, this mead truly makes a statement due to its incredible expression and depth of flavor and character rendered from honey and Michigan tart cherries. A natural complement to chocolate and sharp or blue cheeses, The Statement also pairs well with grilled pork, and makes a terrific reduction sauce for desserts.
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9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle, at share, thanks to me. Pours deep red. Cherry, sweet intense cherry, floral honey, raspberry, slight tartness. Oily body. Incredible.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2021
at 19:59
Tried
on 20 Feb 2021
at 20:24
8/10
@ 2019
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2020
at 15:32
8/10
Magus, hapukas, karamelline, kirsikivid, alks. Hea. 3.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2020
at 21:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours still clear red. Strong cherry aromas, sweet honey. Taste is more of the same. Nice stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2020
at 19:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Appearance - Nose - smoke, .marzipan and red cherry. Taste - much more sweetness this time. Honey loaded with red cherry. Palate - sweet and medium to full bodied. Long elegant taper. Overall - lovely stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2020
at 16:42
8/10
Balaton cherry. Zaskakujaco kwaskowaty i malo slodki, co zwieksza chlalnosc. Ale... malo intensywny i i jakies kwiatkowo/odswiezaczopowietrzne klimaty ma, wiec wczesniejsze warki (z lutowka a nie balaton) mi bardziej
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2020
at 11:37
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
26/7/20: 05/08/2018. Wooo, more amazing Schramms. With cherries on top! Tons of fruit, super intense, very jammy. I can really see the roast pork thing working, here, or on icecream. Still some sweetness from the honey, but it's all about the cherry. Amazing stuff
2/8/20: Bottled 05/08/2018. Saved a bit, just as great. Light sweetness, loads of cherry and cherry pits, some acidity from the fruit and a nice bit of honey in the background. Ends quite dry, but the cherry lingers for ages. Brilliant stuff. Put it over icecream.
24/12/21: 09/18/2019. Side by side with Lutowka. Deep dark red, viscous but not thick. Smell is sweet, ripe cherries, schwarzwalder kirsch. Quite boozy, soft but a tad thin. Taste is full cherry, including the pits, some tannins. Real lovely, great jammyness.
2/8/20: Bottled 05/08/2018. Saved a bit, just as great. Light sweetness, loads of cherry and cherry pits, some acidity from the fruit and a nice bit of honey in the background. Ends quite dry, but the cherry lingers for ages. Brilliant stuff. Put it over icecream.
24/12/21: 09/18/2019. Side by side with Lutowka. Deep dark red, viscous but not thick. Smell is sweet, ripe cherries, schwarzwalder kirsch. Quite boozy, soft but a tad thin. Taste is full cherry, including the pits, some tannins. Real lovely, great jammyness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2020
at 22:00
9/10
Higher tannin, less sweetness than lutowka
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2020
at 20:03