Applewood Farm Meade

Brewed by Applewood Farm Winery
Style: Mead
Stouffville, Canada

[1387-20080524] Bottle. Apple wood aroma has a sweet sticky honey note and has a strange lingering sweaty boy waft at the end. Hazy, light yellow white body with no head. Heavy apple and wood booze flavour with a bit of butter, mostly honey notes. Medium-full body. Interesting hazy colour, super boozy.
(Vintage 2000; c/o HogTownHarry, w/ others)
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Bottle (750ml) shared at ’Biegaman’s Second Annual Saison Tasting’ -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. 2000 vintage. Very pale yellow-gold colour, looking a bit dish-watery - that’s not very promising. But then I check the aroma - big, warm honeycomb with a slight oakiness - oh yeah, that’s nice! Medium bodied, quite smooth. As Harry notes below, it tastes like honey with a nice floral character, with a hint of the oak from the aroma coming through in the flavour as well. Seems really one-dimensional when I write it down, but it was actually quite vibrant and mouth-warming.

Courtesy TheCheeseMan. 2000 Vintage. The still, full bodied liquid shines a lightly hazy, pale golden color. A swirl of the glass reveals thick, syrupy legs like only a mead can. Sweet scents of honey, pear, and apple brandy show incredibly fresh for an 8 year old concoction. The flavor is somewhat unique for a mead, in that the fruity apple and pear take precedence over the honey character, which makes for a nice change of pace. The brandy element is somewhat alcoholic, but nearly as much as the label would indicate. The mouthfeel is full and viscous, like it should be. Great dessert beverage. I’ll be buying more of this.

TheCheeseman strikes again! 2000. bottle. Pours a clear light pale gold color. Smells of rich apple orchards and honey blended together. Great aroma. Theflavor was really sweet as expected, alot of honey sugar and apple citrus mixed. Tasted pretty much like it smelled. The amazing thing about this mead is the alcohol is masked so brilliantly, I would never have guessed it was 20% at all. Pretty damn good mead.

Bottle- 750 ml from the winery- Straw liquid pours and on the swirl, leaves nice syrupy legging. The nose is honey and heavy woody and floral components, with just a slight hint of vanilla. Sweet honey and alcoholic fruitiness, combines with wood and wet grass, straw. Quite booze laden and also syrupy, but in the proper dosage, this is quite a treat. It’ll take a me a while to finish this bottle.

Courtesy TheCheeseMan. Clear light yellow pour. Slight alcohol aroma, some sour apple aroma. Thickly sweet, slight apple tones, no spice notes. Doesn’t taste like 20%. Tasty.

2000 vintage, Sampled at Jans Saison tasting! With thanks to HogTownHarry for supplying the bottle. Rating numer 500!! Phew. Appearance: Slightly hazy white wine colour, sticky, the glass was coated with the mead. Aroma: Boozy, honey and cream, cinnamon and spice. Flavour: Huge honey flavour, like drinking a glass of honey rum, alcohol very evident however not off-putting. Some apples in there too, sweet, sweet, sweet! Very enjoyable, thanks Harry!!!!

2000 bottle, courtesy TheCheeseMan. Pours light straw color, a bit cloudy. Aroma is strong with honey and ripe cider apples, and alcohol. Flavor is very sweet. Honey and candy sugar. Very good. Sweet and sticky on the palate. Very good mead.