Lanchester Wine Cellars Mead

Mead

 

Lanchester Wine Cellars in Stanley, Durham, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Mead Regular
Score
6.57
ABV: 14.5% IBU: - Ticks: 8
Lanchester Mead is one of few meads on the market today. Using pure heather honey, not flavourings, this is one of the best meads (although becoming increasingly expensive to source honey to produce) available. A wine of local significance to the North East, mead was originally made by monks many centuries ago.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from House of Trembling Madness. Clear dark golden colour. Has notes of deep honey, floral meadow, alcohol. Sweet but not sickly at all. Very warming going down, somewhat syrupy and coats the palate as you would expect from honey. As you can see I'm no expert on mead but it was enjoyable and made for an interesting change.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:04


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared with a friend. Deep golden colour, very translucent. The honey in the aroma is very sweet and pure like a decent store-bought jar of honey. Taste is sweet but there’s a gentle balancing sourness near the end. You really feel the booze with this one, a bit of a gum-number. Body not as thin as it looks. An unexpectedly decent mead.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2016 at 19:28


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

700ml bottle. Clear golden brown colour, no head and aroma of flowery honey, woody, alcohol. Taste is sweet, honey, toffee-caramel notes, some spice and earthy alcohol. Syrupy mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, warming finish. Quite sippable.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Oct 2014 at 14:07


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle at a ChrisO tasting - London. Pours clear gold. Very sweet, somewhat astringent. It stings, sir. Some honey, sure. Hot, sugary. Sticky honey to finish, lots of boozy warmth. Not the best mead I’ve had by a long shot.

Tried from Bottle on 18 May 2013 at 12:03


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 187ml. clear glass @ [ Edinburgh Danish Invasion Tasting) by cgarvieuk - Edinburgh ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy honey, flowers, ruff, fresh wood. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, honey, ruff, tart honey notes. Body is medium, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120422] 6-2-7-3-13 Bottle 187ml.Clear medium amber orange colour with no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy honey, ruff, wood, light rubber. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery - syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120501] 6-2-6-3-12

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jun 2012 at 05:49


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled. Golden colour, no head Aroma is honey, some earth, plastic notes and some burning notes. Flavour the same with mild nectary and tart fruityness.

Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2012 at 15:12


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

bottle at The Danish Invasion tasting ... copper ... soft sweet honey nose ... soft dark malts .. sweet malts ... dark fruits ... dark honey ... sweet sweet almost toffee malts ... nice

Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2012 at 17:04


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Chriso Easter Tasting 2012. 14.5% clear toffee appearance. Sweet nougat champagne mead. Decent. Lovely sweetness

Tried from Bottle on 09 Apr 2012 at 05:03