Superstition - Coffee Marion

Coffee Marion is, as you might have guessed, Superstition’s Marion aged on coffee.  

The base mead: Marion is a blueberry, blackberry, and raspberry melomel available as a yearly release.  This base mead has won numerous awards including a gold medal at the 2016 Mazer Cup International.

Coffee Marion is currently a tap room only offering in Prescott, AZ. 

First I will start off by saying the base mead: Marion, is a lovely mead by itself.  It’s dry, tannic, a bit tart, yet still has a nice fruitiness to is and ample honey sweetness.  However the addition of coffee raises this mead to another level.

Coffee Marion

The color of Coffee Marion is a muddled dark ruby, almost brownish.  It’s not the most pleasing color.

The nose is straight coffee. No prominent berries notes from the aroma, however you do get that slight ripe berry nose that some coffee roasts like an Ethiopian bean can provide. 

The taste is what really grabs me and elevates this mead.  There is a perfect balance of berry and coffee in this mead.  Neither is overpowering, perfectly restrained yet each very prominent.  The acidity is perfectly balanced with the sweetness, neither coffee nor berry, nor honey is overpowering.  What I also loved is how the coffee smoothed out some of the dry, tannic characters of the base mead.  

It’s hard to find a flaw in Coffee Marion, and believe me I tried.  It’s about as perfect as a mead as I’ve tasted.  So if you ever get the chance to visit Prescott Arizona, do yourself a favor and not only visit Superstition, but order this mead.  As wonderful as their tasting menu is, which include meads like the Berry White series, Coffee Marion would be at the top of my list to try.