- Blackberry Mead -

Blackberry Mead
Our Blackberry mead is fermented with blackberries to give a deliciously fruity taste.

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Juicy and jammy on the nose with a palate that leads to citrus and earthy tones and a bright, minerally port-wine finish. Mixes with gin or prosecco and pairs well with slow-cooked meat dishes.

  • 75cl bottle
  • 13% abv
'Some would call for pimms, others for prosecco but they would never understand the perfection of simplicity. This is a summer drink, lazy afternoons of heady sweetness, a light-hearted drink with a wealth of flavour.' Emlyn Llywelyn, customer

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Meadiator Reviews

Emlyn Jones [Writer]

The teasing pop of the cork announces the arrival of that thick jam smell and autumnal mornings. Memories of my Mam boiling thick blackberry tar, distilling it into the precious black jam. As it pours it shows its greater viscosity compared to its unflavoured siblings.

The first taste brings the extra sugars from the fruit warming the tongue and palette. The subtle acidity of the alcohol balances the added sweetness of the fruit. The second sip allows the flavour to open up and broaden. The flavours are delicate like a bearded axe fill your mouth a symphony of late summer sweetness.

Transported back to long evening in late summer, sitting in the woods having gorged myself on the brambles' gifts, wrapped in the warmth of the sun, my head filled with dreams of becoming that ranger, or bowman.

Some would call for pimms, others for prosecco but they would never understand the perfection of simplicity. The beauty of honey and fruit. This is a summer drink, lazy afternoons of heady sweetness, a light hearted drink with a wealth of flavour. And then like the Lord of the Rings, the Blackberry Mead struggles to end which is a good thing, it lingers on the tongue its flavours slowly dissipating, there at the end of all things, after many flavourful partings, the fruit is drawn back revealing our old friend, greeting us, the base mead comes flows through like the final final wave from the horizon.

This is a great drink.

Alfie Hall [Bar Manager]

"You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet

Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it".

Seamus Heaney, Blackberry Picking

Glossy berries, purple and plump, are the lifeblood of this mead. Fun fact: blackberries are not true berries, they are aggregate berries, and similarly this mead is more than the sum of its parts. The aroma of sweet blackberry is tempered by a touch of spruce; on the tongue, the hit of blackberry sweetness is cut with citrus. It's a harmonious marriage of bramble and beehive; self-assured and knowing, a little silly but by no means unsophisticated.

Recommended serving: over ice with tonic or, even better, chill and top up with sparkling wine for a Kir Royale twist.

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