Domaine Le Clos des Brumes Reviews

AlainG	4.2 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Cet hydromel a 14 ans d’âge. Il est foncé comme du miel d’automne. En le remuant, on se rend compte qu’il est visqueux. Ça sent le "vin de miel"; sucré par celui-ci, avec une impression de caramel. Des odeurs d’alcool ambré, de bois sec, d’herbes d’automne et de fleurs sauvages. C’est bien dosé côté sucre, c’est légèrement acidulé, fruité; par ce qui ressemble à du raisin vert et même de la pomme. Une finale sur des notes alcoolisées sans extravagances. Un léger accroc indéfinissable. De la cire et de l’alcool pure? Je déchante au court de la dégustation, mais je reste quand même sur une bonne note. (Miellée 2003 Version à 16%) (2311-280817) Tuesday, August 29, 2017
SlovakSniper	0.7 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne Vintage 2002. Après le fantastique Blé Noir, voici cet hydromel qui empeste malheureusement le dissolvent et qui brûle mes papilles. Imbuvable. Wednesday, December 23, 2015
SlovakSniper	4 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Vintage 2003. Un liquide ambré et ses longue jambes enroulées autour de mes yeux. Ses parfums de miel et de fleurs sont nuancés par des effluves de noisettes. Ses saveurs de miel sont fortifiées et laissent une impression légèrement chocolatée. Son corps est liquoreux. Sa finale se joue sur des notes grillées/rôties étonnantes. Très agréable dégustation. Monday, December 21, 2015
Minderbinder	2.5 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne Sample [2002] Pours golden with no head. Aroma is of acetone, vinegar, honey, flowers. Taste is of alcohol, perfume, weird bitterness/acrid, wood, flowers, acetone. Palate: Full bodied. No carbonation. Sticky. Overall: Not good at all. Weirdly acrid. Sunday, December 6, 2015
Minderbinder	3 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Sample. [2003] Pours amber/copper with no head. Aroma is of alcohol, flowers, honey. Taste is of alcohol, flowers, honey, oxydation, cardboard. Palate: Full bodied. Soft carbonation. Overall: Not too bad for a mead. Very bold ethanol ( I hope it’s that). Not bad, but somewhat hard to enjoy. Wednesday, November 18, 2015
mathieuc	3.6 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Pours a super clear amber with nice legs. Nose is of oxidized alcohol, light smoke and caramelized honey. Taste is moderately sweet, offers some rough alcohol and honeycomb. Solvent-y but not as much as the Élie-Anne. Hot, fusel-ish alcohol, I can only imagine how headache-inducing this must have been when it came out! Body is medium and mouthfeel sugary and lightly syrupy. Light fruitiness. Not stellar at all but quite a bit more palatable than their 2002 Élie-Anne for sure. Thursday, November 5, 2015
JulienHuxley	1.7 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne 2 Oz sample, 2002 vintage. Clearish gold pour. Aroma is god awful, intense acetone, light sherry, oxidized port notes, light pickle. Taste is 10 times worse, so much acetone, incredibly hot boozy flavors, thin boozy flavors, woody, palate is thin and hot. :( Wednesday, November 4, 2015
mathieuc	2.8 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne 2002 vintage. Pours a super clear golden with good legs trickling down the side of the glass. Nose is of honey, perfume, acetone (just like czar mentionned). Not as bad as he would have you think it is, though. Way less than in some failed american sours, for instance. Taste also carries some of the off-acetone notes but also a nice fruitiness and some moderate honey notes. Moderately sweet and a bit boozy. OK, acetone is starting to get annoying now. Other chemicals, too. Body is medium and mouthfeel is syrupy but not sticky. A bit less alcohol and no acetone and it would certainly be a top-tier mead. Now it is just awkward and a bit hard to enjoy... Tuesday, November 3, 2015
czar	2.4 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne sample from 2002 vintage. unclear bright yellow pour with some nice legs. gingery and spicy honey, solvent - acetone, lots of woody coconut, light tartness, doughy white grapes and pears, astringent booze and penetrating tannins. flat carbonation - although some bubbles persist - tingling acetic acid traces perhaps; medium body - very oily; sweet, very lightly tart and very tannic-spicy finish. offensive, although acetone aside, it should have been very good at some point in time. DP. Tuesday, November 3, 2015
czar	3.8 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir sample from 2003 vintage. clear medium dark amber, orange tint, with some stunning legs. spicy buckwheat honey, earthy berries, golden raisins, oxidation notes - cardboard and slightly off fruitiness, coffee, very chalky, wood, maple syrup, almost clean - few acetone traces - a fraction of/when compared to cuvée élie-anne. flat carbonation, medium body - oily; sweet, boozy and woodsy-spicy finish. a very nice soft/mellow buckwheat mead. Tuesday, November 3, 2015
tom10101	3.7 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne Sample (2 oz) from bottle (500 ml) at home. 2003 harvest. Clear bright golden leaving nice legs on the glass. Burst of floral honey with oak (a lot less than in Cuvée Blé Noir), oxidation notes, lavander and vanilla. Taste is semi-sweet to sweet with a strong floral presence but it’s definitely starting to show oxidation (more than what has been brought on purpose by the oak aging in barrels). Moderate acidic. Medium body. A bit of alcohol warmth in the end. Good mead, but it doesn’t have the depth of Cuvée Blé Noir and I’m pretty sure it’s going downhill. Tuesday, October 20, 2015
tom10101	3.8 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir 2 oz sample from bottle (500 ml) at home. 2003. Liste as 16.0 % abv. Clear orangey golden leaving some nice legs on the glass. Aroma is of sweet honey, buckwheat, strong floral notes and oxidation (that seems to be on-purpose) presence. Very oaky as well. Sweetness is medium to heavy, but well cut by the oxidation and a mild acidic presence. The buckwheat show up quite a bit. Medium to full body. Oily mouthfeel. Warming finish. Really mellow and smooth while quite complex. A pretty good mead. Sunday, October 18, 2015
JulienHuxley	4 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Bottle. Not sure this product is the same as some of my friends have rated years ago. This bottle (purchased this month) indicated the honey was from 2003. Pours a still, clear, dark gold pour. Very very woody aroma, calvados notes are rather dominant, I kept thinking ice cider more than mead. The apple brandy character even carries that light sourness/funk of the extra extra old varieties. Needless to add, this beverage is mellow as can be (my bottle was labeled at 16,5%). Finish was still rather sweet, but the palate wasn’t very liquory. Delicious, and a frankly novel experience for me in the domain of mead. Sunday, April 14, 2013
cfrancis	4 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne My first mead. Pours a dark golden yellow and is fairly still. Had some bubbles but disappeared quickly. Aroma is sweet, stickly and floral. Slight wood, earthy nose as well. Taste is viscous, sweet with honey and flowers. Nice slight roast finish. Great sipping drink. Tuesday, October 19, 2010
beerbuzzmontreal	4 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne The pour reveals a very pale golden color. This mead smells lovely, some wood, honey of course, there’s something that reminds me of vanilla and bread. The flavor is also very nice, some lavender, honey, wood, again, vanilla comes to mind and maybe flowers. This is a superb mead, very complex and subtle, it’s all about doing the little things the right way. Thursday, May 8, 2008
ClarkVV	3.7 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Bottle (don’t remember the vintage) drunk on 1/27/07 Very bright, brassy gold and hay colored body is glassy-looking, but still transluscent. Fat legs are left on the glass. Thickly sweet, but with a wildflower/perfumey pungency that cuts through the sweetness quite well. Definite medicinal phenolics and light alcohol sharpness appear on the end, but with such low attenuation, all of the pungent, sharp, phenolic and perfumey characteristics are very welcomed as balance. I suppose I smell the "blé noir", and it gives off a lightly hay/straw-like scent, but I certainly would never pick it out blindly. Medium strength of aroma. Very sweet up front, just like the aroma, but lavendar notes, wildflowers and light lemon zest-like notes arrive on the finish to help balance. Dry, almost dusty/chewy buckwheat is noticeable, leaving a bit of grassiness or herbal-like flavors behind and helping soke up some of the fat honey sweetness. Alcohol warmth is definitely strong, with some estery/phenolic spiciness on the finish. It’s sweet, for sure, but I like texture of a sweet mead much more than a dry, and this one didnt cloy my palate, rather the perfumey sharpness and alcohol balanced things well enough. Maybe a touch of soapiness, but I think that’s just the buckwheat. Interesting to see the other scores, I’ll have to try it again, though I’m surprised to see everyone call it cloying as I am usually the last person to enjoy something that others feel is too sweet. Thursday, February 8, 2007
Rastacouere	3 Clos des Brumes Solidago Their driest mead out of the ones I’ve tried. It pulls out gentle woody flavours out of what I seem to remind was new French oak, paired along little floral intricacies. Said gentle flavours grow more aggressive toward the finish, as the honey fades off and it evolves toward a short and dry finish where the wood takes much more room. Friday, November 24, 2006
Rastacouere	2.9 Clos des Brumes Mulsum Trifolium Pale golden pour, still. Slightly herbal offering. Rather watery texture despite its slight slickness. Rather simplistic woodsy honey development lead us into a long and sweetish finish where toasty, sunflower flavours shine through. Friday, November 24, 2006
Rastacouere	4.1 Clos des Brumes Mielle Automnale Élie-Anne A pale gold shining liquid which reveals deliciously fresh petals aromas. A wild prairie of flowers resides into that bottle where the long sojourn into French oak barrels have not managed to impose their brutal character to the not so fragile honey. Really fresh result despite the 6 years since the process began. Almost juicy honey with butter, crackers and lavender notes. A shining example of how subtlety and good disposition of elements that are not necessarily the most complicated, but just fit and enliven together holds as much potential as size and fury. A nice find. Friday, November 24, 2006
Rastacouere	2.9 Clos des Brumes Duché Vieux Chêne A totally unique offering which production is so complicated that it is miles beside the original idea of simple barrel experimentation. This is an 1988 vintage, which received a treatment akin to that of sherries in its voluntary oxidation process. The result is a rather sweet mead with profound oxidized hazelnut skins, mushrooms and pistachios nuances to match along the strong imparted woodiness that lent some tannins to this honey concoction. Rather thick and oily texture, still and filling. Heady, but you would not drink too much of it. An oddity. Friday, November 24, 2006
Rastacouere	3.2 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Clear rather dark golden hue. Buckwheat brings out some very interesting flavours. I was told the residual sugar content was of 30g/L, but the floury nature of the buckwheat manages to cut through that sweetness a fair bit, which is for the best imo. Rather spicy honeyed flavours with wild flower aromatics siding on. More of an original experience than a pure hedonistic adventure. Friday, November 24, 2006
tiggmtl	2.7 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Vintage 2000 - Fairly strong alcohol in the floral, woody, honey aroma. Plenty of sweetness apparent. Clear, deep golden coloured body. No real legs on the glass. Sweetness up front is joined by woody honey flavour along with melons and apples. Slight tartness at the end before seetness re-emerges in the aftertaste. Medium body is a bit sticky with strong alcohol warming. Snifter. Cellar temperature. Bottle (Marché des Saveurs, Oct-04). Tuesday, August 29, 2006
beerbuzzmontreal	2 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Pours a clear yellow color. Aroma of apples and alcohol with mild honey undertones. The flavor is particulary repugnant, the alcohol is dominant and is accompanied by a cloying sweetness. Thursday, November 24, 2005
TaktikMTL	2.5 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir Verre dégustée au Dieu du Ciel. Arôme: Odeur de schnapps au miel. Apparence: Couleur jaune paille. Saveur: Goût de miel et de cantaloup sucré. Court arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût sucré. Malheureusement cet hydromel liquoreux est trop sucré. (Rating #274) Friday, September 2, 2005
CapFlu	1.6 Clos des Brumes Cuvée Blé Noir (500ml bottle) Vintage 2000. Pours a thin, yellow body with light, machine oil lacing. Nose of white wine, rubbing alcohol and apple juice. Tastes hyper sweet with an eggy finish. Ack... not what I had hoped for. Thursday, April 15, 2004