Hello all. Welcome to another exciting episode of billyO's personal mead review. Ok, a bit of hyperbole, I admit, so let's get on with it. I noticed today that my local Fred Meyer has expanded it's mead selection, and remembered mentioning last year that I'd be willing to try another variety of the Hidden Legends portfolio. Unfortunately, my memory isn't what I remember it being, and after I got home I reviewed my notes and saw that I was interested in their Dark Honey Mead, not the Spiced Mead, which is what I bought. Oh well, easy come easy go....Hey, I thought I said I'd get on with it...
According to their website, "we have come up with a secret recipe of our own that we believe is worthy of royalty." Overall impression, not impressed, but perhaps that just proves my bourgeois upbringing. The nose is strikingly similar to Kool Aid fruit punch, but the taste is more like a stale Kool Aid.
My first glass was at room temp and their website recommends serving it slightly chilled, so the bottle is now in the fridge.
I'm not sure what spices were used as nothing stands out, but the website also says, "Our mead wine maker has taken this festive favorite and created a delightfully modern version that can be heated with a stick of cinnamon, poured over ice, with a sprig of mint, or enjoyed by itself." Perhaps the addition of the cinnamon stick or mint sprig is the spice they were referring to. It certainly wouldn't hurt the taste, but not sure it would help.
They also claim that it's a semi-dry wine, but with a SG 1.022, I'd call it more of a sweet wine.
If you have a chance to pass on this, that'd be m suggestion.
According to their website, "we have come up with a secret recipe of our own that we believe is worthy of royalty." Overall impression, not impressed, but perhaps that just proves my bourgeois upbringing. The nose is strikingly similar to Kool Aid fruit punch, but the taste is more like a stale Kool Aid.
My first glass was at room temp and their website recommends serving it slightly chilled, so the bottle is now in the fridge.
I'm not sure what spices were used as nothing stands out, but the website also says, "Our mead wine maker has taken this festive favorite and created a delightfully modern version that can be heated with a stick of cinnamon, poured over ice, with a sprig of mint, or enjoyed by itself." Perhaps the addition of the cinnamon stick or mint sprig is the spice they were referring to. It certainly wouldn't hurt the taste, but not sure it would help.
They also claim that it's a semi-dry wine, but with a SG 1.022, I'd call it more of a sweet wine.
If you have a chance to pass on this, that'd be m suggestion.
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