Redstone Traditional Mountain Honey Wine

A hazy light yellow mead. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of honey. The flavor is sweet spicy combined with notes of honey as well as lighter notes of citrus and a slight acidity.

750 ml bottle. Pours a still shimmering light yellow. Floral honey nose with a touch of citrus. Prominent honey profile with fruity floral notes. Nice balance of sweet and tart with a slight warming in the finish.

Pours still, uncarbonated with a light golden color. Nice aroma of pure honey, crisp apples, and pears. Smooth. Profoundly honey flavor is well-rendered. In spite of the strong honey, the palate is not sweet. Is off-dry. Also has apples, flowers, white grapes, gentle perfume. Really mellow yet potent. Vanilla, some spice in the back of the throat, almost leaving a peasant astringency without being dry. I like this a lot!

Bottle. My firstmead rating. Poured a pale golden color, wine like in texture, semi syrupy. Looks like a white wine. Fruity aroma, no detectable alcohol aroma. Very sweet, and somewhat vinuous, a pleasant honey flavor. Subtle fruit nots and a cough syrupy quality slightly detracts from overall flavor. I enjoyed this. Not much to base it on, but it was good.

Straw colour is, well, a little dull and not terribly enticing. Aroma is very honeyish, lightly spicy (cinnamon) and woody. Sweet flavour with brash honey character kicks things off. Lots of spicy depth. Finishes with an alcoholic kick, vinous acidity, and bursting juicy fruitiness.