Vintage Sac Private Reserve
Tugwell Creek Honey Farm and Meadery in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Mead Regular|
Score
7.26
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Fortified sweet mead
Silver Metal Winner, North West Wine Summit 2010
PH 31
RS 8 degrees Brix
Fruit Source- honey and spice, no fruit -barrel fermented and aged in French oak, fortified
This mead is closer in style to the traditional meads that some people have experienced in Europe. It is an exciting new alternative to dessert wines and should be something to talk about at the holiday dinner table this season. Sweet floral honey notes lead into a long finish that is well appreciated alone or with your favourite desserts.
Silver Metal Winner, North West Wine Summit 2010
PH 31
RS 8 degrees Brix
Fruit Source- honey and spice, no fruit -barrel fermented and aged in French oak, fortified
This mead is closer in style to the traditional meads that some people have experienced in Europe. It is an exciting new alternative to dessert wines and should be something to talk about at the holiday dinner table this season. Sweet floral honey notes lead into a long finish that is well appreciated alone or with your favourite desserts.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from unopened 375mL corked bottle (2007 vintage; from the fiulijnator cellar). Gold with no head. Wildflower honey, a touch boozy, comes out decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2025
at 02:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Golden-amber. Lots of sticky honey. Not much complexity, but it's a good honey character. Medium richness. Some legs. Not bad - this certainly would have been the upper echelon of BC mead at the time, for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2025
at 02:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
2018 vintage. Pours a deep gold color. Aromas of buttery floral honey. Flavors of same. Full. Softly sweet. No hint of the ABV, only a slight warmth in the finish. Good.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2023
at 04:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2oz sample saved by Alex (thx, man!). Appearance: clean a bit dirty golden. Aroma: a bit boozy, dry, slightly sweet, light wood, and honey. Taste: moderately sweet, honey, boozy. Overall: pretty good.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2019
at 07:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2013 bottle sampled at Legacy Liquor, pours a hazy yellow. Aroma brings out honey nectar upfront, some alcohol and graininess. Flavour is sort of like a whiskey, with hot grainy alcohol upfront, a little smoke, and of course honey, with low-to-medium sweetness on the finish. Really exquisite stuff. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2016
at 19:12
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle - Vintage 2013 - Sweet and odd bready spice. Pale yellow. Light grassy, touch of cardamom and a light bitter finish with a touch of alcohol heat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2016
at 18:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. An amber mead. The aroma is dominated by honey, while the flavor is sweet with notes of honey and alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2014
at 14:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small to fully gone head. Aroma is fruity and lingering, Smooth fruity. Smooth and wineous and honey. Lingering finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2013
at 02:16
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle*Clear medium orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy honey, flowers, spicy, flowery honey. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, spicy honey, flowery, flowery honey, wood. Body is medium, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20130224]
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2013
at 08:47
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2019-01-05, sinthetic cork, vintage 2007, 11 years old, 7-4-7-4-15=37
Possibly showing some sign of oxidization, and the booze is rather evident. Still good, but short final. Not particularly rich.
2012-08-02, bottle from Brewery Creek, sinthetic cork, vintage 2007, 5 years old, 8-5-8-4-17=42
Golden color. Already during the pour the aroma reveals a glorious mature mead, with notes of wildforest honey, wood, delicate fruits, some alcohol, light Madeira feeling. The mouthfeel is very sweet but not syrupy; complex flavor, with accents of honey, wood and Marsala, light fruity touch, pleasant alcohol presence; some light oxidisation must have happened here, and it's all good.
Clearly the best Canadian/BC Mead I had to date; it approaches the Polish meads, similar sensorial profile, but less syrupy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2012
at 18:18