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A glass of red wine a day is an expensive prescription - more than most pills. In order to keep daily table wine affordable, I am on a quest to discover the best $10 wines. I'm blogging my reviews so I won't stare blankly at bottles in the store, wondering if this is the one I loved or the one I loathed.

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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Camelot Mead

Price: $9
Type: Mead
Cork: Natural with conservative decoration
Rating: 9
Purchased: Liquor Barn

A friend recently brought a couple bottles of Chaucer's Mead to a party. It was quite the hit, being something a little different. I decided to pick up some more for my next party and found Oliver Winery's Camelot Mead on the shelf right next to it.

I've heard wonderful things about Oliver Winery. The Wall Street Journal rates it as one of the 12 best winerys to visit in the US. They've won a slew of awards for several of their vintages. On top of that, it's only a few hours away in Indiana. One of these days, I really want to visit.

The Chaucer's Mead is tasty - and has the advantage of coming with a packet of simmering spices in case you want to make warm spiced mead during the winter. Oliver's Camelot Mead is better.

All meads are sweet. If you prefer dry wines, stay far far away. If you like Rieslings or Gewurtztraminers, you'll probably like mead. Camelot's mead is a clear, straw colored wine (unlike many meads which are the color of amber and almost as dense.) The flavor is surprisingly light (again, a pleasant contrast to the more standard heavy meads), far less sweet than a soda, and makes a great chilled sipping wine for hot summer afternoons. I will definitely buy this one again.

posted by Chris Rachael Oseland at 7:45 PM

4 comment(s):

  • ($7, 750ml bottle)
    All meads, contrary to the previous post, are not sweet. There are meads with various quantities of residual sugar, depending of course on how much honey (or other fermentable sugars) are used and the alcohol tolerance of the yeast used. These factors lend to several varieties of mead, namely sweet, medium (also called semi-sweet or semi-dry), and dry. With little or no residual sugar, a mead will be dry.
    More residual sugar lends to a sweeter taste, but it is inaccurate to state that all mead is sweet.
    That being said, I tried this mead from Oliver Winery just last night and was pleasantly surprised. As far as commercial meads go, this is inexpensive. Generally, meads sell for 1.5x(+) more than this example, a consequence of high honey prices, lengthy fermentation times, and I suspect also of a niche market.
    There are some fruity notes (pear, citrus) to this semi-sweet mead. It presents well to the nose with some slightly sweet nuances reminiscent of white grape juice (I would not be surprised to discover that this is not a traditional mead). The taste offers The taste tends towards a mixture of fruity and floral notes but also is faintly (honey) sweet with enough presentation to mask the 11% alcohol content. There is a good mouth-feel and a light finish with a touch of sweetness to it. Not the best mead, but for the price it is an exquisite find.

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