Reserve / Special Reserve Mead
Lurgashall Winery in Lurgashall, West Sussex, England 🏴
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6.31
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Despite the annual dating, the recipe is the same each year.
Matured for six months in Oak Barrels which have previously been used for rum and whisky maturation. The mead picks up flavours of the whisky and rum, and is then filtered and bottled. The finished product is a completely different type of mead, more complex and drier than traditional versions.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of oak and honey with a dusty note. Strong and sweet honey flavour ith a hint of walnut.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ Chris O’s. Thanks guys. Pours clear golden with no head. Rice, honey, oak and alcohol. Warmth from alcohol. Sweet and cloying.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 500ml. clear glass.ABV: 17.0%. Clear light to medium yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate honey, wood, earthy. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and light light bitter with a average to long duration, honey, spicy, wood - oak bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20110731]
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
From a bottle at the Vintage Estates, nice place. Volatile plastic aroma. Somewhat sweet turpentine taste. Dry finish and sweet too, what a combo. Not enjoyable for a lager lover. Too many whisky attributes. Wew.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled@SBWF2008 (as Lurgashall Malmesbury Reserve Mead). Yellowish golden colour, no head. Aroma is honey and fruits along with some alcohol and wood. Flavour is bigtime wood and honey along with some warming alcohol. Complex and nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival (as Lurgashall Malmesbury Reserve Mead, 17%). Clear still golden. Concentrated menthe-like honey aroma. Sweet and full bodied. A powerful, liqueurlike mead, complex and arousing. The sweetness gets evermore intense. Finishes with warming alcohol.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2005 Reserve, from the bottle as part of a mead flight at Sunset Grill on 11/17/07
Excessively clear, light honey body with no head and very flimsy legs.
Heavily floral aroma with light notes of lavendar and moist woodchips that belie the very filtered/pasteurized presentation. Not much whiskey or rum, just some light vanillin and more dry honey notes. Hints of cinnamon and allspice finish it off, with the transition from note to note very quick. It never really gives you anything to hang on to. Medium to medium low strength of aroma with some alcohol dryness on the finish.
Tastes like wildflowers and clover, as usual, with flour and bits of plastic. Lurgashall meads tend more dry, so the texture is left very susceptible to this plasticy/flouriness that dulls the already mild flavor. Not much oak and with an odd, fleeting stickiness and a snap of spicy phenols on the end. Novel and more something that makes you just want to say "what the hell is this?". Not particularly offensive, nor is it something I’d get again. Alcohol is not rampant relative to how strong it is.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
My favorite of the lurgashall meads. Full honey aroma. Some carbonation. Sweet, but not sugary, and not as sweet as some others. Flavor has honey and apple, with just a hint of alcohol that does not detract from the experience.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle from Utobeer, London. A friend bought this for me for Christmas and I have been savingit for a special occasion, which for me is Easter Sunday late afternoon. Let me straight away that I love mead. This is deep luminous gold wiht no head. Some nail varnish (acetone) but then nutty nougat. Thick unctious in mouth with rich honey and then white choc, nougat and praline. Deep, rich and satisfying, but light and agile at the same time. Oh and then it is very sweet. Rather gorgeous