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Which ones are of the late harvest /sweet variety?



Gl Dansk Mjod Mead

Iqhilika Honeysun Chile Mead

Lurgashall Christmas Mead

Lurgashall Tower of London Mead

Dansk Mjod Klapojster Mjod Mead

Lurgashall English Mead

Jadwiga Polish Mead 6 Year Old

Wild Blossom various fruit meads. (not counting Sweet Desire)
 
Gl Dansk Mjod Mead

This is basically honey liquor (meaning honey and spirits). It "might" be a fortified mead (meaning a mead with spirits in it). It is not to my liking, and it tastes even stronger than it is, even though it is already quite strong. you may like it, not sure.


Iqhilika Honeysun Chile Mead

this is an interesting mead. Though I'm not sure you would like it. It is a methelgin, in which you can clearly feel the spicy notes. If I remember correctly it was quite dry.

Lurgashall Christmas Mead

Haven't tasted.

Lurgashall Tower of London Mead

This is a fortified mead, which is semi-sweet. Probably my favourite mead (they have much more awesome fruitwines though) from Lurgashall, but nothing spectacular.

Dansk Mjod Klapojster Mjod Mead

Tastes exactly the same as Gl Dansk Mjod Mead

Lurgashall English Mead

An okay mead, with some heavy sweet tones, without being overly sweet. It feels strange in a way for me, sort of like the residual honey is seperated from the rest of the mead. An okay drink, but not really my taste.

Jadwiga Polish Mead 6 Year Old

This mead you will love. Most people love it, and it's exactly your taste. I think I've drank it too many times to truly love it any more though. But it's a great mead, and in terms of price, possibly the "best find" you can make. At least if bought in Poland.

Wild Blossom various fruit meads. (not counting Sweet Desire)

I have tasted a few at IMF 2007, but I don't remember them clearly enough to tell you what I thought (there was a huge amount of meads to taste there). Basically though, they didn't make an impression on me, in the same way Sweet Desire did, which is up there in the list of candidates for best mead I ever tasted.

But since this brings back memories, I have to tell you of another mead featured at the festival that is on that list of best meads. That is Melia from Rabbit's Foot Meadery. This is another sweet mead, but only moderately sweet and low ABV. It's made from really high quality Orange Blossom honey. I don't think you would like it as much as Sweet Desire though, and they have around the same price. Because Melia despite being one of the best meads out there is svereally overpriced.
 
Smarrikåka said:
Gl Dansk Mjod Mead

This is basically honey liquor (meaning honey and spirits). It "might" be a fortified mead (meaning a mead with spirits in it). It is not to my liking, and it tastes even stronger than it is, even though it is already quite strong. you may like it, not sure.


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I have a bottle of this now. It's made with ginger and hops, so there is definitely a bite and some bitterness along with the sweet finish, whether it's balanced or not is a matter of personal preference. I like it, but I don't know my meads. I'm just a noob. It is more like a liquor than a wine by taste in my opinion, that's where I agree with you. The label on the back says it it free of any additives. "...the ingredients are pure and 100 pct. natural - guaranteed free from additives of any kind. Honey is the major and most important item in the recipe."

It's also a ceramic bottle, which is pretty cool.
 
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Fortifying something with spirits wouldn't be considered an additive. Nor would an unfermented honey liquor be considered an additive. Additives is stuff like sorbates, sulfites, acids, and possibly yeast nutrient, etc. The things that would make something a traditional mead instead of a show mead. They aren't neccesarily bad, and the reason they are used, in most cases is because they help make things better or more rigid, or how you want them to be. Small additions of fruit, or spice (like ginger) in methelgin type meads can also be considered additives (but I guess not in this case).

From what I know of the Danish meads, they claim to be based on a recipe from the 18th century, which very well could be true. The 18th century wasn't exactly prime time for mead, but it was prime time for various kinds of distilled alcohols. So it's not surprising that a mead recipe from that time would contain some form of addition of spirits. But their general marketing is misleading for sure, and if the rules for mead were more established, they wouldn't be able to market such highly fortified products simply as mead.
 
"100% Natural" is a meaningless string of characters. It is not regulated and has no definition, and is added for marketing effect only.
 
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