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LAST MINUTE MEAD

So, you ran out of mead for the holidays. No time to make it. Can I actually buy mead?

Yes you can, and Roger St. Denis tells us his experiences with commercial mead sources.

LOCAL:

Borgetto Winery (Santa Cruz) makes excellent fruit wines and Chaucer's Mead. The Silicon Valley Sudzers rated it best of the commercial meads. Beverages & More has it on the shelf (in the dessert wine section) at comparable wine prices. It can be served "mulled" (warm & spiced); instructions come with the bottle.

MAIL ORDER:

Rocky Mountain Meadery at: http://www.wic.net/cpa/mead

3701 G Road
Palisade, CO 81526
(970) 464-7899

FAX: (970) 464-0175

Their web site is excellent and they have 4 meads and some honey wines. The meads:

King Arthur (dry mead) Really dry, most people did not care for it. A few days later this actually was better, oxidation seemed to help all the Rocky Mountain Meads.

Lancelot (medium dry mead) People seemed to enjoy this mead quite a bit.

Guinevere (semi-sweet) This one seemed to go over well too.

Camelot (sweet) Many people liked this one too.

All of the above are $7.95 for 750 ml bottles. UPS shipping:

2 bottles $8.25
3 $8.50
4 $9.00
5 $9.75
6 $10.50
7 $11.24
8 $12.00

Very nice people.

Earle Estates Meadery (Finger Lakes region of New York State) at: http://www.meadery.com/ EEMFrames/list.htm

RD1 Box 246
Locke, NY 13092
(607) 898-5940
FAX: (607) 898-5799

E-mail: earle@lightlink.com

They have many honey wines and 3 meads:

Honey Mead Contemporary Dry - people didn't care for this one, oxidation made it undrinkable.

Honey Mead Traditional - which comes in a spectacular Cobalt blue bottle was generally liked by many people. Everyone wanted to take the bottle home.

Honey Mead Contemporary Semi Sweet - People liked this one too but not as much as the Rocky Mountain Meads.

375ml bottles $7.99

750ml $13.99

Shipping is extra and I think I included $10 or $15 extra for shipping 3 bottles. The lady (using the term lightly) I spoke to wasn't exactly sweet. Self-degradation, great patience, and a gentle disposition got me through the ordering process on the phone. Be prepared.

 


Updated: January 08, 1998.