A Smile of Fortune
(has 4 batches)
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Rotating|
Score
8.71
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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
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
375ml bottled courtesy of and shared with Meadme. Pourpre, huileux doré au verre. Arôme au bouquet chargé en baies, fruité noir, cassis, framboise et effet mûre avec un excellent fleuri et mielleux en rétro-nasal. Palais est intense au niveau du fruité et baies rouges, retrouve un alliage réussi avec le mielleux, épais et sirupeux mais tenant de belles aigres de cassis et terreuses de framboises et aussi un effet rappelant plus la mûre. Le tout agrémenté d'un fleuri, miel profond. Schramm's confirme une bonne place sur les hydromels à fruits. Reste à attendre une sorte de méthode traditionnelle à la polonaise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2018
at 08:05
9/10
Tried
on 02 Mar 2018
at 16:51
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
375ml bottle thanks to Steve. Pours out purple color. Nose is great big sweet jammy fruit notes and a nice sweet kick. Tatse is more of the nice sweet jammy berries and a honey hint. Very nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2018
at 03:58
9.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Batch 1 bottle courtesy of Carl. Very deep pour leaving some beautiful legs on the glass with a swirl. Intense berry bouquet nose with raspberry & black currant taking the lead. Beautiful honey base playing second fiddle. Insane nose really! Sweet, sour & extremely fruity. Round, oily & tart mouthfeel. Quite simple & not overly complex but the execution is flawless & the deliciousness is unlimited.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2017
at 02:52
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Savada. Pours a cloudy dark purple with no head. The aroma is strong berry, currant, grape, honey, booze. Thick, jammy, berry, boozy, sweet cherry, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2017
at 23:45
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sampled at Schramms where it pours up with a deep clear purple body that tosses up some nice legginess. The aroma pulses with inviting berry notes. I can easily smell this from two feet away. I get current jammy heaven with a bit of a bosenberry and waxy honey at the edges. The taste is straight up rich nectar AWESOME! It’s yummy jammy black currants and bosenberry and cherry. Wow jammy juicy and then mild fruity tartness towards the finish. I can sip on this for days . . .
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2016
at 21:09