Bottle from BevMo in Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hill, CA. Pours a clear, pale gold. Aromas of honey and maybe orange. Rather thin. Flavor is mild and clean. A little heat. Not a lot of flavor other than some honey and I think a little orange. Something herbal too, but very mild. On the other hand it seems to drink very well.

Bottle shared by Immy at the 2008 Richmond Summer Gathering in Williamsburg. Thanks Tim! Clear pink-ish color. Pretty atrocious aroma of raspberry and plastic. Taste is a great improvement over the aroma with pleasant raspberry and honey notes. Full bodied.

Very pale yellow colour. Honeyish nose hints at stickiness, light florals. Very sweet palate, soft and approachable, with basic honey flavours. The finish is still thick and sugary, despite a splash of alcohol.. Could stand to be a bit drier.

Bottle, atleast 4 years old. Crystal clear golden yellow body. Sweet honey and light vinuous aroma. Slightly buttery similar to chardonnay. Very sweet honey flavor, light buttery notes and faint fruitiness. Medium body with nice legs. With the spice packet: Somewhat cloudy body due to the spices. Allspice, clove and cinnamon aroma with honey in the background. Sweet honey flavor, light cloves and faint apple. Personally, I prefer the non-mulled version.

I am a mead newbie, but I liked this one. Served cold. Aroma is honey, followed by grape, oak and orange peel. Appearance is of a nice oaky full-bodied Chardonnay. Taste is very much similar to a sweet German Gewurz at first with a somewhat strange, musky aftertaste. Goes down like a Gewurztraminer or any other white dessert wine aswell.

Bottle. Sour milk and honey aroma. Light yellow color. Sweet honey with light sour milk flavor. Standard mead.

Sample from Odeed and Wish; not mulled, without spices; Nose of grapes and wheat; absolutely crystal clear gold with no head; flavor was of alcohol, frapes, honey, and sage.

Well, I was curious about how this would be rated, after drinking it last night as one of my first ever meads. If this is considered a good mead, then maybe mead isn't for me. I wasn 't sure how to drink it, so I tried various options. Initially I tried it at room temp in a wine glass. The aroma hinted at fermented honey (honey + alcohol) but like a Necker Cube, randomly transitioned between that and a more fuselly alcohol, cheap Chardonnary and a solventy plastic smell reminiscent of a showroom full of fiberglass bass boats. The flavor was not unlike that aroma, with a light soft and smooth palate. I should mention its appearance before I forget: pale yellowish straw, perfectly still. Next I tried it heated with the accompanying packet of mulling spices. While I enjoyed the subtle spices, the heating made this undrinkable. The fuselly solventy character was magnified greatly, and I nearly choked from the fumes each time I placed the glass near my face to take a sip. Had to dump that. Lastly I pour a glass over ice, and that really made all the difference! Suddenly the aroma seemed of pure sweet honey. The aroma was light and sweet, definitely honeyish with some hanging on of a vinous white wine character and body. While I was able to finish my chilled glass of mead, I still wasn't entirely thrilled with it. The numerical rating for the room temp version would be about 1.5, while the heated version about 0.6. The rating shown is for the chilled version.

Figured I would make number 499 and 500 some new experiences - tonight, 499, is mead, tomorrow, 500, will be sake (though I'm not holding out hope that it will be a great experience) - to this mead - Looks like your standard white wine - no carbonation, smells very much of white wine as well, with apples and pears in the mix - quite sweet, but contains many subtle flavors - apples, white grapes, honey (of course), some grainy flavors, slight orange peel, some herbal notes - the subtle complexity is, most of the time, a bit overpowered by the sweetness, but this is still quite enjoyable - smooth, with well-masked alcohol, making it dangerously easy to drink - one of the better meads I've had, and a good first mead rating.