New Day Dry Peach Honey Wine

Brewed by New Day Meadery
Style: Mead
Elwood, Indiana USA

bottle - Pours a clear straw color and has an aroma that puts me in mind of sweet peaches with some honey and alcohol as well. It tastes of honey with subdued peach flavors. Of course as the 0% residual sugars indicates, it’s a very dry honey wine and yet something about the taste that seemed a little sweet had me swearing there must be some sugar in it. It’s much like a very dry white wine, light and enjoyable, and doesn’t really have any false notes. The peaches come through more definitively than the blueberries do in their dry blueberry one. Nicely done.

This bottled mead from the meadery poured a head of large sized clear colored bubbles that were quickly diminishing and left behind a transparent very light yellow colored body. The aroma was sweet tart and honey. The dry mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the harsh finish with sour tart notes. The soft flavor contained notes of semi-sweet dry peach.

Out of a bottle at a tasting at the meadery. Pale yellow color and still. Peach syrup nose. Long, dry peach flavor like peach cobbler and pits. Some sweet floral notes from the honey. Burns a little on the tongue.

Rated at New Day Meadery. Straw hue, nose was sweet, fresh peaches and tart and ditto for the flavor. Smooth, dry mouthfeel and light body. A very nice tasting Mead and one I would drink again. Nicely done and worthy of a try.

Anniversary Trip 2007

The tasting notes provided by the meadery actually provide a very accurate description of this mead:

Combining tree-ripened, freshly picked Indiana peaches with our Indiana wildflower honey has resulted in a bright straw-yellow mead. The aroma is 100 percent fresh peach, with just a hint of wheat straw in the background. The flavor is subtle tart peach, bright and crisp. Allowing this Dry Peach Honey Wine to ferment to complete dryness allows the true characteristic of the fruit to come through in this delightful fruit and honey wine.

Residual Sugar: 0% Alcohol Content: 12% Style: Still.
Vintage: 2006 Batch number: 06-3 Cases Made: 83

5/20/2007: New Day Dry Peach Honey Wine is super clear with barely any shade of color. The aroma is fuzzy light peach with a hint of honey. Sublte tart peach can be found in the crisp flavor. Very dry on the palate. This mead reminds me of Sauvignon blanc wine. This one has the same alcohol content as the plain New Dry Dry Mead, but it tastes stronger. It also has a mouthfeel that seems more round...

Sampled at New Day Meadery in Elwood, Indiana.