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| Drinking window: Drink between 2009 and 2016 (based on 15 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 82.8 pts. and median of 85 pts. in 26 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by mordasm on 3/9/2016 & rated 92 points: I am unsure of the age but an educated guess is more than 7 years. Very pleasant, non-heavy or thick tasting, slightly sweet. Will buy again. (2957 views) | | | Tasted by J.Ciaccio on 12/2/2015 & rated 84 points: Honey and plum to nose. Honey to taste. Makes sense because it's made from honey. Dessert wine, with a little alcohol to taste. Think honey, not Biffy. (2806 views) | | | Tasted by flutricity on 5/27/2015: sour. green apples.
0lovel deep pink color. rose/ (3103 views) | | | Tasted by TexasBob on 4/12/2014 & rated 83 points: Light 24 karat gold sheen. Nose of honey and yellow plums. Initial palate of slightly bitter honey that is pleasant but nothing special. The real joy of this wine comes at the finish, where it transitions between honey and yellow plums and sweetened gooseberries and grapefruit and passion fruit. Finally, the bitter honey takes over once more and lingers quite a while. (3910 views) | | | Tasted by MindMuse on 6/10/2013 & rated 85 points: I had a bit of sport by serving this blind at the end of a tasting to several wine friends. I had it brown bagged, but it is a 750 wine bottle, has a foil capsule and a cork, which I made sure people saw me extracting (you can disguise that it is synthetic) as I offered to buy dinner for anybody that could identify it. One gal did identify honey, but actually said it tasted like "honey bees". Not "honey", but "honey bees", which I thought was actually rather brilliant.
In fact it tastes good, with honey and over-ripe apple, hint of caramel and spice, just short on the acidity one would expect from a wine. Mine had been aging over 1.5 years, which probably does have some effect. (4583 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 7/28/2012 & rated 80 points: Sweet and floral with pungent aromas of cat pee, mentholatum, and Vicks Vapor Rub; some intense honey notes. No acidity to balance its sweetness. Had it sans mulling spices. (2911 views) | | | Tasted by Drs. B on 6/11/2012: Intensely sweet, but not in an overpowering way, with a faint/subtle honey flavour. Had it well chilled (without the mulling spice) on a very warm afternoon and it was actually quite enjoyable. (3849 views) | | | Tasted by jsimmons on 7/11/2010 & rated 80 points: By itself, it was very one-dimensionally sweet and had a bit of a rubbing alcohol or paint thinner scent and taste (though perhaps I simply didn't drink it cold enough). I dropped a little more than a shot's worth in a pint of Guinness, though, and it was really quite good. I'll try my other bottle warm and mulled in the fall. I'm with the previous note, though - the best meads are made at home in small batches and aged enough to develop some character. (5099 views) | | | Tasted by qwerty2 on 4/27/2009 & rated 76 points: I tried it first heated, with the spice, and found that a few sips sent me right to the sink to pour it out. After letting it chill, I had some the next day, and found it to be everything I remembered from having it ten or twelve years ago. It's very sweet, cloyingly so, and has that aftertaste of alcohol. Mead is meant to be a summer wine, and the very best ones seem to be made at home. Find a friend who makes mead. (4744 views) | | | Tasted by RossR on 3/9/2009 & rated 80 points: Cloyingly sweet and lacking any of the floral overtones I would expect. I'm hoping that sitting for a while will help moderate the dominant sweetness. I don't hate it but I'm struggling to think of when I'll drink my other bottle. (4334 views) | | | Tasted by houtx on 8/18/2008 & rated 85 points: This stuff can really jump around on you. The last time I had it, it was a sweet grape-wine like flavor with some vaporous notes of dry honey. This time, it is creamy, like a warm British ale. Really quite different. More a warming drink for a cold winter's day than the previous refreshing cool down in the hot summer. (4169 views) | | | Tasted by thatguy314 on 8/12/2008 & rated 87 points: Sweeter than I remember, still very nice. (4378 views) | | | Tasted by garambler on 6/16/2008 & rated 89 points: We had this with Asian Chicken dinner on 6/16/08. It had aromas and flavors of honey, orange and spice (nutmeg among them). It was not too sweet and had a delicious flavor. (3348 views) | | | Tasted by javadrinker on 6/10/2008 & rated 87 points: Wasn't sure how this was going to drink after a year but it surprised me. The honey was obviously still predominant but it wasn't as overly sweet as I remember. It drank quite nicely, both with food and alone after the meal. (4506 views) | | | Tasted by houtx on 5/12/2008 & rated 85 points: I've had a few of these previously, and none really impressed me; this one did. Don't know if it was cellaring it for a while (I hear you're not supposed to) or what, but this time, it blew me away. A beautiful golden color with a dry-ish honey aroma. A nice honey bite and a delicious flavor that completely envelops the mouth. Absolutely a blast to drink. The most fun a "wine" can be. (4251 views) | | | Tasted by thatguy314 on 7/18/2007 & rated 87 points: I had it room temperature and later cold. A delicious dessert wine. Nose of powerful honey with a hint of lemongrass. Medium bodied. Flavor was honey, sweet but not overly so, with pear, and a cinnamon/spice flavor that was very muted when it was chilled. I wish had more than one more bottle of this. It reminds me of a Moscato that I had recently.
I did not add the spice pack. (5211 views) | | | Tasted by DOH! on 6/22/2007 & rated 75 points: Strong alcohol taste at first, then pretty pleasant by the end; not sure whether it opened up due to decanting or deadened my palate. Have had meads I enjoy more (one from Westwood CA was the best), though this was very drinkable. (5084 views) | | | Tasted by javadrinker on 6/15/2007 & rated 86 points: Pretty much what I expected. A sweet, honey tasting, dessert type of wine. Not something to enjoy while relaxing but probably fun at parties. I actually used some to marinate some chicken and that wasn't bad. (5315 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| N.V. Chaucer's MeadHoney Sources: Sierra Nevada Mountains, Mountain Wildflower and Sage; Southern California,
Alfalfa and Orange Blossom
Harvest Season: May 15 – July 15
Total Acidity in Wine: 8.3 g/100 mls
Residual Sugar: 10% by weight
Alcohol: 11%
Cases Produced: 14,000
Made from fresh honey without the addition of artificial flavorings, concentrates or artificial colorings. The honey for this specialty dessert–style wine is produced in hives throughout the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is composed of a blend of four types of honey: orange blossom, mountain wildflower and sage and cotton–alfalfa. Each brings a unique quality to the blend and contributes to the overall complexity of the Mead.HoneySweet Honey WineUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson CaliforniaNapa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
Santa Ynez.http://www.everyvine.com/org/Camp_Four/vineyard/Camp_Four/ |
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