Harvest Gold Fortified Wine

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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. And after a snort of this lovely, slightly gooey, honeycomb-laden sipping wine you'll wonder why we don't drink it more often. 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.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. A genuine change from the norm and you just know you could be toasting Beowulf or Boudica with a flagon of this stuff. Tom Gosnell quit Virgin Media to brew a distinctively light, sparkling modern mead in Peckham, southeast London.

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. 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 original mead was simply fermented honey diluted with water, making it the world’s most ancient known alcoholic drink.

Disclaimer We've put this info together to help you get a feel for the product and have tried to make sure everything's correct. This stuff is severely backsweetened, meaning it has a tonne of sugar in just to make it taste like anything resembling palatable.