Honey Sun Iqhilika (Mead) - Herbal
Makana Meadery in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa 🇿🇦
Mead - Metheglin Regular|
Score
6.79
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Our prize-winning mead - Gold medal award winner in the Speciality Category at the 2006 International Mead Festival in Boulder, Colorado.
A semi sweet mead (approx 20g/l residual sugar) with rooibos, honeybush tea, cinnamon and apple. The herbs provide a smooth structure to the mead with a lingering honey aftertaste. Ideally served at 12-14 degrees Celsius, in a large red wine glass to allow development of the nose.
A good stand alone sundowner, a well matched partner to spicy dishes and stir fries, game and poultry and a companion to desserts and coffees.
A semi sweet mead (approx 20g/l residual sugar) with rooibos, honeybush tea, cinnamon and apple. The herbs provide a smooth structure to the mead with a lingering honey aftertaste. Ideally served at 12-14 degrees Celsius, in a large red wine glass to allow development of the nose.
A good stand alone sundowner, a well matched partner to spicy dishes and stir fries, game and poultry and a companion to desserts and coffees.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle served cold @TreeRock. Clear, vibrant gold. Lacey pour. Strong, boozy, buckwheat-like dark honey & sweet licorice nose. Re-fermenting, slight bubbles. Sharp apple sourness, cinnamon, ginger, cherry pit tannins. Not a pristine example, but still tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2021
at 17:53
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle at Tree Rock, pours a clear golden yellow, no head. Nose brings out subdued herbal notes and light honey nectar. Flavour is along the same lines, with a wonderful honey nectar character, with light herbal notes and some spices. Nicely crafted. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2018
at 20:25
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
Sampled at Vintage Estate this mead poured a dark tan-brown color. The aroma was vinegar and tea. The flavor was vinegar, honey, tea, mild vague herbs and an earthy presence. Very long vinegar finish. Moderately full bodied. Not good.
Tried
on 14 Nov 2016
at 21:51
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear golden yellow color, with legs. Aroma of fresh meadow, Christmas spice. Taste is floral, spiced, mostly dry finish. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 12:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home. I’ve had zymatore versions of this mead but needed to try original for comparison and the south Africa tick. Pours orange with lovely nose of honey and perfume. Tastes of honey but not too sweet, herbal, perfume, red fruit, apples, and boat loads of rooibos tea (which I love). Really drinkable and good mead.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2014
at 20:01
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Sweet spiced balsamic vinegar, star anise, and spiced apple aroma. Clear chestnut. Spiced apple and honey flavor. Medium body, slightly dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2014
at 10:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle. Fresh honey, pollen, rooibos, apple aroma - smells like a Gluehwein. Amber. Lightly sweet spiced apple/rooibos and honey flavor. Slightly dry finish. Smooth - very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2013
at 09:51
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Pours clear, still, copper....no head. Honey, apple, spice aroma. Taste is very sweet, sugar, apples. Cinnamon. Very good, but very sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2013
at 16:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
At vintage estate. Brownish and clear. Smells like sweet bubble gum. Dee-lish honey with a slight warming effect. Fun & easy. smooth and like able. Lovely, best of the meads that I can remeber.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2013
at 09:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of honey and raisin with a herbal touch. Raisin sweet flavour with some herbal notes
Tried
on 23 Oct 2011
at 11:16