Fox Hill Blackberry Honey Wine

Brewed by Fox Hill Meadery
Style: Mead
Marshall, North Carolina USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle from Whole Foods Market, Vienna, VA. Pours a clear pinl-orange color. No head. Aroma of strong honey notes, blackberries, cherries, other berry notes and faint vanilla. The taste is cherries, berries, vanilla, honey and booze. The tastes are muddled and it really comes across as almost cloying and much like fruit punch. Medium bodied. Fairly disappointing.

This is a nice refreshing fruity mead. It is slightly sweet. Although the meadery indicates that it is aged in oak, I was unable to pick out any oak flavors. Also, I found the mead improved greatly 20 minutes or so after opening. I think it needs a little time to air out. After that, it was great, for the next three days until it was finished. Great light, resreshing mead.

Pour from a bottle at Asheville Pizza. This is darn red in color. No carbonation is visible. The aroma is predominantly blackberry. I had trouble discerning any genuine honey just by my nose. I had a feeling this would be sweet, and it is. This is a still mead, but thin on the palate for the style. Lots of blackberry all over the place, honey is only an afterthought with small hints at honey comb and cork. This is too juicy for my taste and much, much too fruity. I am eager to try their traditional mead as this one is seriously fruity.