Mountain Meadows Agave Mead

Brewed by Mountain Meadows Mead
Style: Mead
Westwood, California USA

Marigold color. Apple juice and bursting lemon dryness in aroma. Mango and melon nose, tart but tempered with very clean, aromatic flowery honey. I wish I'd had "real" tequila before tasting this mead to compare the agave flavors. I am going to seek this out (have heard Mountain Meadows might be going out of business??) and savor more in the future.

Rose-hued peach. Lethargic tearwork drapes the sides of the glass. Very delicate notes of peach, honeydew, and fresh agave interwoven with luxurious alcohol, rose petals, and mild graham sweetness. Still. Elegantly silky on the palate. Medium body. First taste yields a delicate, coppery, tingly acidity, followed by lovely agave and peach notes which chase away some of the sweetness. Very bright and flowery, throughout, with a perfect level of sweetness coming from the honey, which leaves plenty of room for the agave. Mild tartness continually lurks in the background. Plenty of dryness, grit, and silk on the finish, yet with plenty of complementary honey notes to deepen the lovely peach skin acidity and tangy agave. Powdery residue coats the inner lips as the lengthy tartness never relents. Not a surprise, another extremely fine mead from this world-class meadery, teeming with extravagance.

A great tequilla flavor wonderful for drinking on its own, mixing with cranberry mead or even replacing tequilla in your favorite margarita mix! A wonderful bottle to always have on-hand.

Sunset copper, no head obviously, inviting aroma of honey, peach, alcohol and more. Light to medium bodied, stiff, wet, dry with flavors of lemony honey (almost like an herbal tea). Its made from blue agave which some tequila is made from, I dunno, its in there but I cannot describe the taste, makes it unique, tangy, a bit acidic but playful with the flowered honey sweetness. This is good mead, not a in jadwiga class IMO for it doesn;t have the palate but damn flavorful and worth a try, better then chaucer's and I think thats rated pretty highly on here if thats worth anything.

Pours clear gold with no head or carbonation. Aroma smells a lot like white wine - flowery, pepper, citric, and grapes. Flavor a bit tart apple and grape. Nice, more tart mead.

Bottle. Sweet oaky aroma with some grape and apple notes. Spicy with a bit of a lactic note. Heavy mouth feel. Very sweet but finishes dry. Apple, cinnamon, citrus and tannic flavors.

Tasted at the San Diego International Beer Festival. Another winner in my book. Golden color with a less sweet aroma and taste than their other meads. Alcohol (at 13+% according to the label) and dry spice flavors dominate. Yum.

Golden color wit decent legs. Aroma has some nice wildflower honey, apple, and agave-desert scents. Flavor has a nice OB/wildflower honey tang with some floral and light fruit notes. Nice mouthfeel that surprises. Not fantastic, but pretty good for a semi-dry mead. Went very well with chicken!