Auckland-area hubski people, please contact me if you'd like some of mine to sample - I've got heaps. Just over a year old, so not really at its best yet.
It's kind of ridiculous how expensive it is to ship anything overseas from here. Takes 2-3 weeks typically too. Cheapest option is to tuck a bottle or two in a traveller's suitcase, so - come visit NZ, y'all :-)
Sweet meads will taste mostly of honey. I much prefer bone-dry meads. I like to describe the taste of a good dry mead like this : Honey is sweet and sugar is sweet, but if you remove all the sweetness from sugar, there's nothing left. If you remove all the sweetness from honey, however, something is left behind, and that's the taste captured in a good mead. The delta between honey and sugar.