3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Originally received a 4.05 from me on 4/21/03. Sadly, DesiDew Meadery is no more. Stubborn cork yields a fizzy and spritzy pale yellow mead. Subtle honey and perfume. Sweet, yet has a slightly rough finish. Alcohol is plainly evident after a while. A novel offering, but one that I can no longer get in NC.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Head is initially small, fizzy, white, fully diminishing. Body is hazy light yellow, unfiltered. Aroma is lightly to moderately yeasty (dough), with a note of alcohol, light notes of honey and flowers. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation, moderately alcoholic. A little on the crude and simple side, and pretty hot, but ok.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
750. Mead is clear, pale gold with a small, fizzy, immediately diminishing head.<P>
The aroma is initially doughy champage-like, but fades quickly into unpleasentness. Light notes of honey, bread dough, white grape juice, trace of dry pear, blighted by overwhelming fusals.<P>
The flavor is mostly balanced, moderately sweet, moderately dry. Quite warm.<P>
The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is fizzy.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Excellent Mead! I am truly impressed by this offering from the Appalaichan Coastal plains. Tough cork folks. It was cemented in. Pours a weak pale lager sort of color. Airy foamed head. Very sudsy, though not soapy in the least. Nose: Complex. The usual honey urine smell hits first. The urine fades into beef broth. Very cherry. Not tart but sweet. Sherry beef broth dryness subsumes all else. Very dry and very brothy. Powerful in this regard. Flavors: Dry spritzy sourness. This turns into a green apple sour sweet that is lovely. Beef broth and mint assault the tongue. This digresses into a very dry white wine sort of character. The cottonmouth is present with the green sweetness, however the sherry, beef broth is present as well
This is a powerful drink! Excellent and refined, sharp and pungent while retaining the sweet honey charactersitics that make mead wonderful!
G-rat
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