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fatbloke said:
Well, the most recent commercial mead I've tasted was the Moniack mentioned by CG. UKTony had it sent to me to try and test.

Apparently they used to market it as heather honey mead etc, but it seems to have had a make over recently.....
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The Moniack of a few years ago was amazing. The best traditional mead I've ever tasted -- and if you smelled heather flowers, you could tell exactly where they got their honey from. The Moniack tasted like heather honey.

The Moniack I picked up a year ago does not blow me away any more. They've changed something, and lost what made it so spectacular.
 
Shelley said:
The Moniack of a few years ago was amazing. The best traditional mead I've ever tasted -- and if you smelled heather flowers, you could tell exactly where they got their honey from. The Moniack tasted like heather honey.

The Moniack I picked up a year ago does not blow me away any more. They've changed something, and lost what made it so spectacular.
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Hum ? Well it was UKTony who brought it up and had the bottle sent to me.

He did allude to Moniacks website having been "refreshed" and now being a lot more corporate in appearance, as well as having all reference to heather honey removed.....

I'd suspect its more to do with cost.......
 
Yup, exactly. The first website I saw of theirs looked like one from 10 years ago that had beed designed by an enthusiastic newcomer to web design and wasn't much more than a few lines of description and a pic of the drink. Here is an archive and a pic of the old bottle.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030321001312/http://www.moniackcastle.co.uk/mead.htm

The URL moniackcastle.co.uk now redirects to "Highland Wineries"

fatbloke said:
Hum ? Well it was UKTony who brought it up and had the bottle sent to me.

He did allude to Moniacks website having been "refreshed" and now being a lot more corporate in appearance, as well as having all reference to heather honey removed.....

I'd suspect its more to do with cost.......
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