Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Backroom sample from the bottle at Whole Foods Charlottesville. Pours a clear amber color. Aroma is sweet honey with a faint but of spice. Taste is overly sweet and closer to apple cider than mead. Very light notes of honey, spice and a fair bit of alcohol. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Short Pump, VA on 03/27/2009. Production date: March 14, 2007. Very clear golden yellow body with thin legs that quickly slide down the glass. Big vanilla aroma with light orange blossom and fruity notes. Sweet vanilla flavor, some orange blossom, and a touch of alcohol. Medium body, not thick at all, with no carbonation and a smooth slightly syrupy finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750ml dusty bottle. This melomel pours with a clear reddish-purple body and no legs or head/lace. Looks like Welsch’s Grape Juice in my glass. Aroma of sweet honey, tannins, raspberry, grape and strawberry. Taste is sweet with grape and raspberry, a slight minerally note, and the classic honey/yeast profile that runs through all of Redstone’s meads. Very light effervescence, refreshing mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750ml Bottled on June 4, 2007. Labeled as Redstone Meadery Honey Wine with Juniper Berries. Pours a clear yellow hue with some particulates and decent legs. Aroma is sweet honey with some wine tannins and a bit of bitterness (from the juniper?) in the finish. Taste is sweet upfront but balanced by the spice and bitterness of the tannins and the juniper. Alcohol is noticeable, but this stuff is still very drinkable. Thin mouthfeel for a mead of this gravity.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 50cl. [ Courtesy of Papsoe ]. Clear orange red color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy honey, wine, alcohol, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. 100908
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottled, produced 07/2004). Dark hazy red wine color, no head. Portwineish, sweetish, herbal with strange berry aroma. Red wine tannines, some port wine, clovey-honey, not sweet. Interesting cross-over of American mead and red wine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled (thanks Papsoe!). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is wood, extremely sweet honey and some sap as well as fruits and berries. Flavour is sweetish sour wooden notes, fruits, alcohol, honey and some mild herbal notes. Quite dryish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of Ungstrup. Slightly hazy reddish amber golden with a small, rough white head. Piquant aroma of honey and....coconut! Medium-bodied with ligh honey notes, coconut and a whiff of red wine. Has a light acidity in the finish. 310808
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle, 12%. Good mead aroma. Almost clear dark copper colour. Dry flavour, some coconut. Too dry. Not pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[Vintage 2004 – Courtesy of Ungstrup] Cloudy red with tiny off white short lasting head. Sweet aroma with honey, grapes and alcohol notes. Sweet flavour with berries, honey and caramel notes. Ends with warming alcohol.