Elderflower
Lindisfarne Mead in Holy Island, Northumberland, England 🏴
Mead - Metheglin Regular|
Score
6.62
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A blend of honey, locally drawn water, fermented grape, neutral spirits and elderflower extracts.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Wee bottle at home. Pours clear pale golden, nose is toffee, honey, elderflower, plant stalks, taste is sweet honey, prickly elderflower, zesty, sweet. 7/8/8/7/7
Tried
on 02 May 2026
at 13:28
5.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 4.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
It has a rich honey aroma aroma with a bit of florals. The flavor is very sweet. It’s almost syrupy honey. A wee bit floral. Too sweet for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2026
at 05:36
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Mini bottle from HOTM. Clear pale gold. Obvious elderflower to the fore, a touch of butterscotch in the background and a finish that tastes entirely of that honey and lemon flavoured cough mixture for dry and tickly coughs. It's quite pleasant but I'm not sure I'd have it again.
Tried
from Bottle
at
House Of The Trembling Madness (Stonegate)
on 04 Apr 2025
at 17:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample courtesy of mR_fr0g, cheers Fergus! Clear pale yellow gold colour, some bubbles on top and aroma of honey, floral, elderflower, citric. Taste is sweet, honey, grape, sugar, citric, along with floral elderflower notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation, sweet finish with lingering bitters. Quite drinkable.
Tried
on 21 Jul 2023
at 20:47
6/10
Tried
on 19 Jul 2023
at 22:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Panda at home, thanks to Fergus, 16/07/23 Clear light yellow with no head. Nose is melon, honey, sugars, floral notes. Taste comprises sugars, water melon, perfume, light herb, honey, just a trace of elderflower. Full bodied, oily feel, semi drying close with a spike of alcohol. Okay functional mead ... nothing to revisit for me ... would have liked more elderflower presence.
Tried
on 16 Jul 2023
at 17:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home picked up from HOTM. A clear pale petrol coloured pour with a not head. Aroma is semi sweet, white sugar, floral notes, lychee, some alcohol, waxy notes. Flavour is composed of semisweet, clean clear honey, white sugars, mellow floral notes, elderflower, lychee, light spicy finish. Palate is semi swet, oily, almost no carbonation. Hides the alcohol pretty well, Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2023
at 21:30