White Winter Sweet Mead

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

Clear pale light yellowish color, clear. Medicinal, tart and floral nose comprising surprisingly mild lemon nuances and more obvious herbal ones. It possesses a slightly spicy profile which reminds of algae and wild flowers. This is a follow-on in mouth, where tartish flowers, white grapes and sweet yet lasting well fermented honey offers a coating finish, smooth, soft and light-medium bodied. A fun and original mead.

750 ml bottle shared with several Quebecois and one other drunk American at tiggmtl’s going away party in Montreal, from a New Belgium glass; also sampled twice at the meadery a month ago in Wisconsin. Clear scintillating white wine appearance, medium body, still, with smallish legs.....grassy, herbal nose at first offers interesting but bizarre notes of dill and tarragon, though rustic apples and honey do show up eventually....absolutely stunning flavor, beautifully balanced sweet/tart character, sour apples and sweet floral honeys with only a slight emphasis on the latter....very drinkable, not at all cloying, my favorite from this meadery and a top 5 mead for this burgeoning honeyhead.

Nice light gold color.Great honey aroma.Great taste of honey with a nice syrup-like texture.One of the better meads I have tasted.

Delicious. Light honey color and a nice honey aroma. Very much mead. Silky and syrupy mouthfeel. The flavor was sweet honey mead. As sweet as it was, I did not find it cloying. Just a very enjoyable drink.

2004 Autumn Brew Review: Honey Coloring. Extremely Sweet. Reminds me of the Honey Mead at the MN Renaissance Festival. A Sipper Due to the Sweetness, but Pleasing to the Tongue.

Light gold color. Aroma of honey. Taste is very sweet with sugar and fruit. Hard to drink more than a few sips, but I did like the taste.

Autumn Brew Review 2004. Very light yellow color. Enormously sweet with honey and sugar. Faint apple. A bit too far on the sweet side for me, but tasty.

Sampled at the Peoria Int'l Beer Festival. This mead was light straw colored, no head. Light honey aroma. Sweet honey flavor is coupled with flowery clover notes. Very faint carbonation. Lightly sticky, it slightly coats the glass with a thin film. Quite good.