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You may remember the last review of B. Nektar Meadery’s Orange Blossom Mead.  I had positive things to say about it– it wasn’t too sweet, and it wasn’t too non-honeylike.

I have mixed feelings about Vanilla Cinnamon.  The bottle says ‘award winning’, and it had an award-winning taste… but a few things disappointed me.  I could taste the vanilla more than the honey. I could taste the cinnamon, which was nice.

It was quite powerful in sweetness, btw.  So much that I found it hard to continue enjoying the bottle after getting halfway through.  However, I think that sharing it with friends would result in a better enjoyment of this mead.

I wish the honey taste was a bit stronger, and that there was less of a ‘hollow’ kind of sweetness in how it hit the mouth.  It’s hard to explain this sweetness.  It felt like a thick sweetness versus a sharp sweetness.  (EG:  Some sweet things have a clear bite in the mouth.  It didn’t feel like it had this clear bite.)

Overall, I’d probably buy it again, but not for anything less than a friend and I to share.

You may have seen the last post I wrote about the first taste of mead from this meadery.  Luckily, Orange Blossom Mead was QUITE satisfying when it comes to mead.

There was a bit of a citrusy bite in how it sat in your stomach and how it went down.  It tasted a bit bitter and citrusy as well in the mouth.  Honey definitely backed up the strength of this wine.

This mead made me feel a bit tipsy and light-hearted.  I miss another Mead I’ve had, but this is a great one to introduce people to Mead.  It’s not the best, but it’s worth it.

Back in January, I had my first taste of (good) mead.  All I previously tasted in the past was nothing better than vodka + honey.  This was a far cry from truly good mead.

What’s mead?  Mead is a honey liquor.  The best mead I tasted went down like honey water that got me drunk.  (Sweetness varied upon the mead itself.)  Some mead is made by bees who only ate from one kind of flowering plant.  This affects the taste of the honey and the resulting mead.

Today, we’re going to be talking about B. Nektar Meadery’s Wildberry Pyment.  Here’s the disappointing prefix:  the bottle calls it “grape honey wine”.

Here’s my brief discussion:

This mead is not golden yellow.  It’s a grape/wine-y purple.  It has only a bare hint of ‘honey’ taste.  The grape and ‘natural wildberry flavor added’ are both obvious.

I’ve felt that various liquors can affect your mood– some can lift it, and some can make it low.  This liquor made me feel sad.  Not only was the honey taste disappointing, but I genuinely felt low while drinking it.

In my opinion, stay away from the Wildberry Pyment.  It’s not mead to me at all.

Soon, I’ll be reviewing the other flavors I’ve purchased.