Harvest Gold Fortified Wine

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He uses lager yeast to produce ‘a crisp, refreshing finish to balance the sweetness of the honey’, though surely missed a trick by failing to name his eponymous meadery Virgin Meadia.A genuine change from the norm and you just know you could be toasting Beowulf or Boudica with a flagon of this stuff. From the moment you open the bottle till you finish the last drop, this mead is sweet, smooth and easy drinking with its traditional recipe and wonderful honey aroma and taste. This delicious English tipple blends the finest ingredients to provide a rich golden honey colour and delicately sweet, aromatic and mouth watering flavours of acacia blossom. The material is for general information only and does not constitute investment, tax, legal, medical or other form of advice.

This means taking pictures of it with things that make it look even tastier, such as colourful crockery and other dishes in the range. You should also note that the picture images show only our serving suggestions of how to prepare your food - all table accessories and additional items and/or ingredients pictured with the product you are purchasing are not included. Tom Gosnell quit Virgin Media to brew a distinctively light, sparkling modern mead in Peckham, southeast London. It is entirely possible that mead-making even predates farming, which might explain its new following among the very latest demographic, the urban bearded hipster who has already clasped craft beer to his hairy chest.

In America mead sales grew by 130% from 2012 and 2013, according to the American Mead Makers Association.

We’ve had Game of Thrones theme nights requesting mead,’ says Sophia Fenton of The Cornish Mead Company, which has seen an uplift in sales since the series began. The original mead was simply fermented honey diluted with water, making it the world’s most ancient known alcoholic drink.Nowadays it ranges from around 5% to 20% alcohol, can be still or sparkling, as dry as proper sherry or as sweet as a pixie princess trilling ‘Hey nonny no’ on a marshmallow mushroom.