Včelařství Jiří Smolík
Meadery in Honezovice, Plzeň Region, Czechia 🇨🇿
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Leftovers from 0.1L (thx, Renny!) @ SF shared with almost full gang (missing two biggest guys only).
Aroma: a lot of honey, dark cherries, sweet, bold.
Taste: along the same lines, intense, a bit astringent. Lots of cherries at the end.
Overall: nice one.
Aroma: a lot of honey, dark cherries, sweet, bold.
Taste: along the same lines, intense, a bit astringent. Lots of cherries at the end.
Overall: nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2026
at 02:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at Mead Museum, pours a clear golden. Aroma has plenty of crisp apple skins, apple juice, and wildflower honey—fairly dry. Flavour has a really nice blend of apples and wildflower honey, with plenty of booze and light floral notes. Really great incorporation of the apples. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Medovinárna
on 21 Nov 2025
at 11:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Medovinárna, thx mcberko! Cleeeear paaale golden body. Old apples and honey, caramel, alcohol in the aroma. Too dried out bit alcoholic but smooth sweet red apple and honey in the taste. Hight boost but kinda works!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Medovinárna
on 20 Nov 2025
at 17:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark purple. The aroma is a bit medicinal, it's got a nice berry character, with some richer honey overtones, lightly floral. Yeah, that's really nice.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2025
at 05:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from 100mL bottle (pkg 29.01.2025). Mahogany auburn with no head. Very nice dark cherry, slightly tannic, nice honey underlay. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2025
at 05:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.1L bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany. Nose has a sort of red wine tannic character, even though I know this is cherries – so I guess deep dark cherry skins, fermented out honey, and some honey nectar. Flavour is more like a medium-dry fruit wine, with lots of deep dark cherry skins, some vinous notes, fermented out honey, and alcohol. Really nicely constructed; the fruit adds a wonderful complexity. The sweetness is quite low for a mead, but I think that works. Finishes more tannic than anything. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2025
at 05:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
100mL bottle from Medovinarna. Pours deep mahagony. Grainy honey and sweet dark cherries on the nose, some cinnamon. Flavour has a deep dark cherry character, honey sweetness, tart tannins, boozy; quite dry on the finish. This is very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Medovinárna
on 29 Jun 2025
at 00:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour at Medivarna. Pours clear rose gold. Flavour has tons of rich honey and subtle, but still very present blueberries. Restrained and well-done.
Tried
on 16 May 2025
at 20:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the mead museum. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, toffee, apple, taste is sweet, juicy fruit, finish is a little harsh. --- Beer merged from original tick of Apple Mead - Beekeeping on 28 Jun 2024 at 12:02 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2024
at 11:09
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0.2 bottle, Pozdrav z Domažlic from Náš Konzum, Domažlice. Dull golden-amber body, fairly clear, not much head. Strong aroma, bit rough, honey, fermented honey, some alcohol, maybe light glue, doesn't hide its strength. Honey-driven taste (so surprising), actually pleasant, lightly caramelly, vaguely spicy, nice minty note, sweet, some odd fermentation notes, again, alcohol and light glue. Sorry, a bit too much. Sweet, aggressive, sharp, not my type.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2022
at 23:11