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Aurimas

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Hello,

Where I live there is only one mead type and it is very tart and dry. I tasted only it and my own meads.
I have been making mead for about a year now and it is hard to understand what I am seeking in it when I do not know how exactly a good mead tastes.
Reason for this post is to find a person who can help me to buy some bottles of mead and ship them to Europe (Lithuania to be specific).

Maybe someone can help me with this?
 
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As I understand, a good mead is a mead well balanced, tasty, complex, with stucture and body. It can be a matter of personal taste, of habit, but also a matter of fashion...

A little vague isn´t it ?

When I say a matter of fashion, I recall , at least here in Portugal , the white wines. Today (although it´s changing again) they are very thin, fermenting only the juice, without stalks, seeds or peels. The result is a light wine, with little body , low tanins, low colour, and soft nose. About forty or fifty years ago, nobody would buy these wines. Everybody wanted white wines with strong body, tanins, well marked yellow colour , and they were fermented like red wines , with all the ingredientes of the grapes.

About mead, for what I can see in the Forum, most prefer dry meads or demi-dry. Here in Portugal, my demi-dry meads are considered very dry. JAOM is apreciated but considered not to much sweet, as here everybody is used to desert mead ( d > 1050) , so...
 
I prefer sweet meads over dry because you get more attributes from the honey. I'm jealous that you live in the land of Port wines. We have a very slim selection of Ports where I live. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy a dry, heavy oaked cab from time to time but really love them sweet Ports.

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Try to describe what the color blue looks like to someone who has been blind all of their life. Or the sound of a river rushing, to someone who has never heard. Such is the plight of explaining to most of the world what mead tastes like. It is a delicious frustration that we all share. I applaud you for seeking out opportunities to explore the boundaries of what mead can offer the taste palate. It is a lifetime journey to be sure.
 
Aurimas said:
Hello,

Where I live there is only one mead type and it is very tart and dry. I tasted only it and my own meads.
I have been making mead for about a year now and it is hard to understand what I am seeking in it when I do not know how exactly a good mead tastes.
Reason for this post is to find a person who can help me to buy some bottles of mead and ship them to Europe (Lithuania to be specific).

Maybe someone can help me with this?
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Are you unable to purchase on line in your country? I would love to get some stuff from Europe. Especially Polish meads. Shipping across the pond is really a detriment.
 
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