Afon Mêl- Heather Mead, 20cl 13% vol
Price: £12.90
Afon Mêl- Heather Mead, 20cl 13% vol
Heather mead is fermented using heather honey and so has the rich, luxurious almost smoky taste of Heather. Afon Mêl Heather mead has a very distinctive flavour and is much sought after, it’s certainly the mead with the most characteristic flavour of honey.
Awarded a 3 star Great Taste award and is the only mead to have ever won the Golden Fork Award.
Check out Mallika Basu, William Sitwell, Jun Tanaka, Felicity Cloake, Liz Selway, Lucas Hollweg, Peter Sanchez-Iglesias and Alice Lascelles judging the Heather mead at the Taste Table session.
" I think this is the best mead that I've tasted." Alice Lascelles, Drinks writer for The Times
Hand made, and matured in oak casks, Mead is a smooth honey wine that can be drunk in a variety of ways: before a meal, as an aperitif with ice or tonic water, or straight as you would drink a sherry. It is also extreamely good as a dessert wine or as a liqueur after a meal.
SKU: meadHeather20cl
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Afon Mêl Afon Mêl renews the tradition of mead making with a range of modern meads. Using a traditional recipe and modern brewing techniques our mead, which is made in small batches, is fermented at ambient tempreratures during the summer months before maturing in casks. The process takes at least two years which results in our mead having a smooth, mature, full bodied flavour. The alcohol and the beautiful honey flavour present in all our meads is simply a result of fermenting honey and water together. Brewed by monks through the middle ages, MEAD was the mainstay of Welsh courtly life. It is reckoned to be the oldest alcoholic drink in the world. All over drink in the world. All over Europe it was thought to be an aphrodisiac and given to newlyweds to drink for a month, hence the origin of the word 'honeymoon'. Celebrated in the poetry of Aneirin and Taliesin, it was a drink for which the Welsh were hustly famous. Afon Mêl has a smooth, fruity taste which makes it easy to drink and enjoy in a variety of different ways, and not just by newlyweds. |