White Winter Blueberry Mead

Brewed by White Winter Winery
Style: Mead
Iron River, Wisconsin USA

[Bottle, ABR ’07] Pours a nice deep red. Very sweet aroma of honey and blueberry. Taste is the same. Nice and thick. I haven’t had many meads and am not very good at picking things out from them, but I liked this.

Sampled at the White Winter Winery. Pale red color with a subtle blueberry nose. Very nice, smooth blueberry body with a faint honey character.

During May ’07 brewpub tour, stopped at the winery in Iron River, WI. Pours a deep ruby-pink color wine with pink highlights at edge of glass. Aroma has blueberries and just a touch of sweet light honey. Very fruity. Flavor is mostly blueberries with a hint of honey as a sweet aftertaste kicks in. Palate is semi-sweet and a little syrupy. A nice compliment to a breakfast pancakes and blueberry syrup.

Pours a crystal clear crimson color, with brief ’legs’ of thick coating on the sides of the glass. Thick sweet winey aroma - like a sweetish ruby port. Sweet full flavor - very fruity - more like a sweet plum than a tangy blueberry. A dollop of clover honey accompanied by tangy acidity in the finish. Full bodied. Served at room temperature in a champagne flute. A nice sipper for dessert.

Sample at the meadery, late July 2006, from a White Winter glass. Deep reddish-pink with thick legs leaving lots of crystallized sugars in the glass....very sweet fruity nose with just a light touch of acidity, lovely wafts of vanilla and, interestingly, a sort of biscuity malt touch.....front is very sweet and lightly syrupy, turning gradually acidic and quite dry, even shading to a light bitterness/metallic character at the finish. Well-made as are all of the White Winter products but not amongst my favorites.

Very pretty, rosy and ruby. Smells like red wine vinegar. Fruity and sweet, blueberries, and yet more vinegar.

One of the highlights of the 2005 ABR. There is a huge and pleasant blueberry aroma. The mead is pink. This is very sweet with no flavor of honey at all; light blueberry and some sugar. Great for sipping. Dry finish. This is not as sweet as some meads.

This is my second choice in the mead catagory. Just enough blue berry to make it tasty, but not so much to overwhelm the drink. White Winter is really good at making meads.