Bottled@SBWF2008 (as Lurgashall Malmesbury Reserve Mead). Yellowish golden colour, no head. Aroma is honey and fruits along with some alcohol and wood. Flavour is bigtime wood and honey along with some warming alcohol. Complex and nice.

I was not crazy about this, its very dry, and bitter. There is not a lot of residual sweetness in this one, like the others that I have tried. Their are some tropical fruit notes, but they are very subtle, did not pick up a lot of the woody notes in this one.

2005 Reserve, from the bottle as part of a mead flight at Sunset Grill on 11/17/07<br />Excessively clear, light honey body with no head and very flimsy legs.<br />Heavily floral aroma with light notes of lavendar and moist woodchips that belie the very filtered/pasteurized presentation. Not much whiskey or rum, just some light vanillin and more dry honey notes. Hints of cinnamon and allspice finish it off, with the transition from note to note very quick. It never really gives you anything to hang on to. Medium to medium low strength of aroma with some alcohol dryness on the finish.<br />Tastes like wildflowers and clover, as usual, with flour and bits of plastic. Lurgashall meads tend more dry, so the texture is left very susceptible to this plasticy/flouriness that dulls the already mild flavor. Not much oak and with an odd, fleeting stickiness and a snap of spicy phenols on the end. Novel and more something that makes you just want to say "what the hell is this?". Not particularly offensive, nor is it something I’d get again. Alcohol is not rampant relative to how strong it is.

Bottle: Clear gold in color, some legs, not much though. Aroma, honey and some fruits, faint spicing, some vanillla. Flavor, honey, hints of oak, some apple, a bit hot, and on the dry side. Not bad though.