Redstone Honey Wine With Pinot Noir Concentrate

Brewed by Redstone Meadery
Style: Mead
Boulder, Colorado USA

(Bottled, produced 07/2004). Dark hazy red wine color, no head. Portwineish, sweetish, herbal with strange berry aroma. Red wine tannines, some port wine, clovey-honey, not sweet. Interesting cross-over of American mead and red wine.

Bottled (thanks Papsoe!). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is wood, extremely sweet honey and some sap as well as fruits and berries. Flavour is sweetish sour wooden notes, fruits, alcohol, honey and some mild herbal notes. Quite dryish.

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of Ungstrup. Slightly hazy reddish amber golden with a small, rough white head. Piquant aroma of honey and....coconut! Medium-bodied with ligh honey notes, coconut and a whiff of red wine. Has a light acidity in the finish. 310808

Bottle, 12%. Good mead aroma. Almost clear dark copper colour. Dry flavour, some coconut. Too dry. Not pleasant.

[Vintage 2004 – Courtesy of Ungstrup] Cloudy red with tiny off white short lasting head. Sweet aroma with honey, grapes and alcohol notes. Sweet flavour with berries, honey and caramel notes. Ends with warming alcohol.

Bottle. Clear orange red coloured with a small off white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel and butterscotsch with notes of honey and grapes. Sweet and fruity flavour of spices, honey, berries and caramel with motes of alcohol and grapes. Warming alcoholic finish.

50 cL bottle, 2004 bottle. Pours cloudy and golden amber with a fully gone head. Aroma is malty and spiced mead towards honey and wineous. Fruity and wineous grapefruity. Smooth and honey to a solid malty base flavour. Slight alcohol bite into the finish. Smooth yet also warming.

A pale amber mead. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of red wine as well as notes of wood. The flavor is very spicy including ginger and cinnamon, but also with strong notes of red wine and some notes of wood. The alcohol warms the body. Nice one.