Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

375 bottle. (batch 1) Pours a nearly opaque dark purple color. The nose is mostly raspberry with some juniper berry and perhaps a bit of vanilla. The taste, like the aroma, features raspberries in the forefront with juniper and gin filling in the back and sides. There is a nice light acidic tartness and the gin barrel does give the impression of hot alcohol. The palate is full as always with Schramm's meads. Finishes long and somewhat tart. Overall: A masterpiece. Paired well with some artisan gouda cheese.

Lots and lots of gin notes, even feels like some gin heat on the finish, but flavor-wise it's still really balanced with raspberry jamminess as Schramms does as always.