This finishes really sweet and is designed to. I have made a ton of variants of this and still have 6 bottles left from my first batch that are now 2 years old. Adding raspberries to the recipe comes out awesome, and adding some cranberry juice can add some bitterness that reduces the sweetness. I have some 1 gallon batches from last year I need to bottle, I just have been too busy with school and work to get around to it.
The curse of the mead brewer is, I need to rack or bottle a bunch of stuff. The good thing is that time only helps mead. I have a 17% blueberry mead that has sat in the carboy for over a year I should rack and backsweeten soon.