A Smile of Fortune
(has 4 batches)
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Rotating|
Score
8.70
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A Smile of Fortune is a dark fruit melomel containing Black Currants, Lutowka Cherries, Heritage Red Raspberries and Oregon Boysenberries. Intensely bold fruits balance their tart, tannic, and acidic flavors with the sweetness of high quality, responsibly sourced honey. Fortune truly smiled upon this mixed fruit melomel, and we are grateful for the result. Pairs beautifully with fresh young cheeses, pork, or chocolate.
Batch #01
Release Date: 12-17-2016
Batch #02
Release Date: 12-30-2017
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9/10
Tried
on 11 Mar 2019
at 18:18
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours very dark red. Smell is intense, thick red fruityness. Taste is intense, red fruits, thick, very nice. Side by side with THOD, this is a bit more complex, I like it a lot!
Tried
on 01 Feb 2019
at 22:54
8.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
375 ml bottle. The flavor is blackberry, cherry, red currant, red grape. Jam and berry jelly. Hard to find the honey but wow! The depth is wonderful!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2018
at 02:06
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Poured from bottle split 8 ways ruby red no head nice lacing. Aroma is jammy berry honey. Taste is delicious lots of berries honey wildflowers balanced perfectly. I love this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2018
at 00:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by TJ on 12/8/18.
Beautiful cherry-violet. Clear but yet it looks nice and viscous somehow.
Nose is intense cherry-berry with good juice, acidity and yet no alcohol. Very clear, clean and true with luscious fruit and light honey on the edges. Could do with a bit more honey character in the nose. There is some pepper phenol here, but it's minimally floral and mostly dominated by the fruit. The fruit is god damned excellent, though.
The flavor is just nutty good though, any reservations about the aroma going right out the window. Juicy, acidic, soft, sweet, complex, peppery, floral. Wow. Red wine, beautiful tart cherry and juicy berry. Soft, supple and luxurious. This is quite the mead. No alcohol or flaw.
Beautiful cherry-violet. Clear but yet it looks nice and viscous somehow.
Nose is intense cherry-berry with good juice, acidity and yet no alcohol. Very clear, clean and true with luscious fruit and light honey on the edges. Could do with a bit more honey character in the nose. There is some pepper phenol here, but it's minimally floral and mostly dominated by the fruit. The fruit is god damned excellent, though.
The flavor is just nutty good though, any reservations about the aroma going right out the window. Juicy, acidic, soft, sweet, complex, peppery, floral. Wow. Red wine, beautiful tart cherry and juicy berry. Soft, supple and luxurious. This is quite the mead. No alcohol or flaw.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2018
at 00:11
9/10
Zajebiste polaczenie owocow z miodem, geste, slodkie, kwaskowate, bardzo owocowe, mimo to lekkie w odbiorze, wypilbym flaszke. Super, 4.6
Tried
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 17 Nov 2018
at 20:58
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Thanks Gregg for saving the bottle - a true class act! Bottle into a taster showing barely translucent dark plum red . The nose shows moderate oxidation and lightly intense notes of black forest fruits - cherries, plums, currants, and light jamminess. The palate is full bodied with a light alcoholic spic. Balanced sweetness with light to moderate tartness and strong juicy notes of black forest fruits once again. Very mild tannic profile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2018
at 14:05
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Inky purple, unbelievable depth of red current, cherries, black berries, raspberries. Amazing depth. Super smooth with excellent fruit character. Just amazing how each fruit jumps out. Amazing.
Tried
on 20 Oct 2018
at 07:34