3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle at London Gathering Nov 2005. Compared to the Lyme Bay Mead, this was a little disappointing. Strong alcohol nose with honey too and brown sugar. Way too sweet and even a bit brandyish which would account for my low score as I am not much of a one for brandy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2005
at 10:58
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
An orange mead with no head. The aroma is dominated by alcohol but also contains notes of berries and flowers. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol and rosehips.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2004
at 12:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A very beutiful deep red mead with the fluid making curtains on the glass. The aroma is very sweet - almost warm - with notes of rosehips and cowberries. The flavor is also very sweet but with the acidity and flavor of apples in the background to give it a very nice balance. The acidity is subtle yet it still draws a little mouthwater like a lambic. The flavor also contains notes of rosehips and cowberries, the sweetness stick to your lips, while the acidity stays on your tongue for a long while combined with hints of the alcohol. A very nice mead.
Tried
on 20 May 2004
at 16:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours clean golden with no head - this is a mead. The aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol, berries, flowers, and apples. The flavor is very spicy with apples, green leaves, flowers, cloudberries, and hints of honey before giving way to a slight tongue burn of alcohol. I enjoy the taste of this one.
Tried
on 19 May 2004
at 15:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
This mead is very red with no head. The aroma is of cowberries and raspberries. The flavor is very sweet with notes of havtorn (seathorn?), cowberries, and raspberries.
Tried
on 08 May 2004
at 19:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A red brown beer. The aroma is of berries, rosehips, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet, cowberries, rosehips, and alcohol. A really nice mead.
Tried
on 05 May 2004
at 17:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Golden, totally clear - no head for stating the obvious. Sweet apples & garden herbs in the nose - or some specific medicinal herbs. Sweet taste, again very medicinal. As a cough syrup for kids. Not very honeyish, however. Thick, heavy, syrupy mouthfeel, with quite some alcoholburn. Well - as a kid I would have hated this. Can’t say I’m over the moon now.
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2004
at 16:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
This is my first mead, which could influence the rating. A beutiful orange color with good curtain down the glass. The aroma is strong of alcohol, spices, berries, and hints of honey. The flavor is strong from the alcohol - yet very fruity. I detect apples, rosehip, and cowberries. A quite nice drink, but I must admit I’m more a beer guy than a mead guy.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2004
at 15:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Beautiful garnet-red, teardrops as port- or fortified wine. Very portwine-like nose, alcohol, brown candi sugar yrup. Sweet taste, honey, multitude of fruity flavours, which I cannot pinpoint. No doubt it's rosehips. Very sweet, but there's a sourish tinge on the lips. Fiery alcoholburn, brandy-like. This is nice, big thanks to the Danish delegates for bringing this to me. I'm afraid I'm better at beer descriptions, however.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Apr 2004
at 11:15