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Marlobobo in Sande, Vestfold, Norway 🇳🇴
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
7.36
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Rum barrel-aged strawberry mead.
Barrel-aging never ceases to amaze us. After racking a juicy, no-water strawberry melomel to a very special rum barrel from Barbados - we were floored by how much it changed by 5 months of aging. The barrels were exceptionally potent, and our production room was filled with aromas of sweet coconut, pineapple, vanilla and caramel while we were filling the barrel. But never did we imagine that the mead would morph into a totally different beast during this fairly short time of aging. The barrel wanted to shine, while keeping the strawberry second fiddle. Who are we to say no to an old barrel's wish?
Something to savor - Let it breathe, open up, and enjoy how much the flavor changes throughout the bottle.
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Barrel origin:
Plantation rum from Barbados (Originally very old Willowbank whiskey barrels - New Zealand distillery that closed all the way back in 1997!!)
Honey variety:
Wildflower
Strawberry variety:
Polka
*The vintage year shows the harvest year of the ingredients*
Barrel-aging never ceases to amaze us. After racking a juicy, no-water strawberry melomel to a very special rum barrel from Barbados - we were floored by how much it changed by 5 months of aging. The barrels were exceptionally potent, and our production room was filled with aromas of sweet coconut, pineapple, vanilla and caramel while we were filling the barrel. But never did we imagine that the mead would morph into a totally different beast during this fairly short time of aging. The barrel wanted to shine, while keeping the strawberry second fiddle. Who are we to say no to an old barrel's wish?
Something to savor - Let it breathe, open up, and enjoy how much the flavor changes throughout the bottle.
-------------------------- 2022 --------------------------
Barrel origin:
Plantation rum from Barbados (Originally very old Willowbank whiskey barrels - New Zealand distillery that closed all the way back in 1997!!)
Honey variety:
Wildflower
Strawberry variety:
Polka
*The vintage year shows the harvest year of the ingredients*
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle pour at Omnipollos Hat. Pours clear amber. Tons of strawberries, amber rum, and grainy honey. Flavour has super intense amber rum, strawberries, grainy honey. Fantastic, rum barrels are both strong and very well-incorporated into the mead.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Omnipollos Hatt
on 16 May 2025
at 02:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle pour at Omnipollos hatt, pours a clear golden orange, no head. Aroma is intense, with huge rum barrels, huge strawberries, and some honey nectar beneath it all. Flavour is absurdly intense and yet somehow elegant, with huge rum barrels, intense strawberries, and plenty of honey underneath. This sounds like a potential disaster on paper but count on Marlobobo to nail something like this. Impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Omnipollos Hatt
on 15 May 2025
at 22:55
7/10
Leather, smoked, peat, nutty, walnuts, honey, weird
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2024
at 15:36
8/10
Magus, puuviljane, aprikoos, puuviljane. Hea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2024
at 15:20
7/10
Weird smell decent taste
Tried
on 19 Oct 2024
at 15:47