Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pale, lots of honey aroma and a dash of mushroomy character. Touch of spice up front, and sweet honey, mellow melon notes, and a dash of balsa wood. Good mead. There’s another level but this is solid. Acidity in the finishes, which is like a mandatory thing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn (thanks a lot, Alex), pours a clear blonde with no head. Nose brings out sugary sweet agave nectar and wildflower honey. Flavour is exactly the same, bringing out the wildflower honey upfront and maybe some of the agave, but I can't really tell that apart. Very enjoyable and well-made mead.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, thanks Alex! Dull straw, doesn’t look great. Aroma has some sticky sugars, light florals, dash of gluey phenols. Dryish character, bit of clean lactic, hint of wildflower honey, but not a lot of complexity in this one. Nothing to really jump out and grab me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, courtesy of fiulijn (thanks Alex), pours a clear yellow with a tiny white head. Aroma brings out lots of honey, spice, and floral notes. Flavour is rather thin and light for a 10% mead, with spicy notes, floral notes, and spicy honey. Not very complex at all, but somehow easily drinkable for such an ABV. Decent, but not the most invigorating mead.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Elizabeth Station, Bellingham; synthetic cork; 10% ABV
Measured Final Gravity: 1005
Yellow straw color. The aroma is deep, full of summer flowers, fig twigs, dry weeds, with delicate fruity profile, and a light impression of alcohol. As promised, it’s a semi-dry mead, but the mouthfeel is soft; the flavor is aligned with the aroma, with accent of fig twigs, a bit woody, light vanilla, and an impression of Chardonnay; in the final it has a light tannic bitterness. Short final.
Nice mead, with interesting aroma but more plain flavor.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Cranberry Mead from Mountain Meadows Mead 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at jesprs... Deep brown... Zezty fruits honey nose... Dry honey... Light alcohol... Soft burn... Soft fruits
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle as Trickster Treat. I need the label for this if anyone has one. Pours gold. No head. Nose and taste of agave, wildflower, honey, vanilla and light spice. Sweet. Medium body.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Honeymoon Nectar from Mountain Meadows Mead 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at Sjätte Tunnan, April 2013. Clear golden/orange with no head. Aroma and taste of light fruit, honey, "white wine" and some light spices. Easy to drink.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Cranberry Mead from Mountain Meadows Mead 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Sjätte Tunnan, April 2013. Clear reddish with no head. Aroma of cranberries, honey and almonds. Similar taste. Sweet and dangerously easy to drink.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Honeymoon Nectar from Mountain Meadows Mead 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Synthetic cork, 12% ABV
Measured Final Gravity: 1042
Blond color. Indeed this one is a sweet Mead, with lovely, deep notes of freshly cut wood and wood sap, in the aroma and even more in the flavor; tones of musk, of forest; correct acidity; there is a touch of fruits too. Excellent Mead.