White Winter Black Mead

Reddish hughed pour, very wine like in appearance. Heavily syrrupped aroma very sweet sweet sweet small amount of berry in it. Avg pal. Oddly has a tart current front w/ a warm swallow lackin in the sweetness I had expected. A nice mead.

Musty with black currants on the nose. Pours amber with a purple tint. Tart cranberries, sour grapes, and black currant, bitter cranberry, very smooth. Awesome mead.

Bottle thanks to tytoanderso. Pours with a red, grape juice colored body. Decent alcohol legs. Aroma of currants, red wine, burnt sagebrush and wild flower/weed sap. Taste is dry, sickly tannic (extremely, overwhelmingly so) extremely low residual sugars, light grape and berries, sow low residual sugar it hurts (seems like less than 0.995). Medium viscosity, and very, very dry. Not really a well executed mead.

[Bottle] Pours still red, and has good legs. Some alcohol in the aroma, decent fruit, and light oak that comes out when it warms. Taste has a lot of fruit, alcohol, tannins, oak and mild bitterness. Medium-thin mouthfell with a long finish. This was a really interesting mead. Sort of like fruit juice combined with wine, with less honey showing through than with some of the other White Winters that I have had.

750ml bonus from tytoanderson. Thanks Tye. This is tasty and drinkable, and drunkable for that matter, if its not a bit too fruity. Pours reddish purple with no head. Nose is sweet and curranty. Taste is currantalishous with some honey. Clearly there is alcohol in this mead, but its almost like cranberry ocean spray, there is tartness and sourness, which I course like but, I come back again and again to the oceanspray cranberry, but thats ok I guess, this is indeed a strange and enjoyable mead, but still something is sitting on my shoulders trying to butt into the conversation, but when he opens his mouth the words are not there, he doesn’t know what to interject, because I don’t know, its just blanketedly eeirie.

Darker reddish/purple color with a nice black currant aroma. Flavor is black currant-dominant with some mild wildflower honey and a crisp finish. Nice, but having made mead with black currants before I find it a bit one dimensional with simply black currants and monotone honey. More complexity needed, though currants are always a nice start.

Corked bottle. Pours a thick and oily dark ruby with an aroma of subtle berry-infused red wine and a touch of oak. The liquid leaves a nice translucent film on the glass as it sloshes about inside the goblet. Flavor is a rush of red wine that tapers into a subtle berry and honey blend that leaves a pleasing bitterness on the tongue. Full and coating mouthfeel that keeps the flavors bouncing on the taste buds. A fine mead that straddles the line of a red wine. Nice stuff.

Bottle courtesy of tytoanderso. Pours ruby red. Smells of black currants, some honey, a hint of tartness. Tastes of black currants with a touch of honey. Decent.