€27.95
Wild Red Mead – Merlot Barrel Aged (12% ABV) is the first of our wine barrel-aged meads, a gorgeous 3 year-old berry mead fermented dry and silky smooth and matured for the last 12 months in French Merlot wine barrels to add intriguing structure and depth. An exceptional, unique mead, a lively, attractive drink with a decadent richness.
Enticing and warm, juicy with bright red and black fruit flavours from the Wexford blackcurrants and dark, sweet cherries, well balanced with caramel from the Bordeaux oak barrels. Delicious served at room temperature on its own and wonderful with fine food.
All bottles hand numbered and signed. Naturally Gluten Free.
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Flat Rate Delivery charge to anywhere in Ireland is €7.95 with our new shipping company, DPD, and to Northern Ireland is £6.95, delivered within 1 or 2 working days. We have a UPS Express delivery, which is usually delivered the next working day. Full Details page here also lists some suppliers who can ship mead abroad, including to the UK, Canada and USA.
Store the bottles similar to wine, upright in a cool place away from direct sunlight and they should keep for at least two years.
Once opened, store the bottles upright in the fridge. If you a vacuum pump with wine bottle closures that pump out the oxygen, all the better. After that the flavour starts to change a little as the air gets to it. Good to drink still or use in cocktails or cooking.
The Merlot Barrel Aged Mead keeps up a month, if there’s any left by then.
This mead shines with food such as steak or stir fry beef, roast rack of lamb and rosemary or mushroom pâté on thin cut toast or chipolatas.
Our beautiful label was inspired by the story of the “Wild Geese” Irish who emigrated in waves from Ireland to the continent at the end of the Jacobite wars and settled in France to start trading and making wine. Today, in Bordeaux, you can find the names of those resilient Irish emigrants on the streets and vineyards of the region – Lynch, Barton, Boyd, Phelan – alongside other trading connections to the wine ports of Ireland.
Kinsale in 18th century was a thriving wine port, importing barrels from the France, Spain, Portugal. The harbour and warehouses were full of the finest wines, ports and sherries. In a sense, we are completing the circle, bringing those precious barrels back to Ireland.
We were over the moon when this mead won the Drink of the Year from the Irish Food Writers’ Guild.
Ein herrlicher, drei Jahre alter Beerenmet. Halbtrocken fermentiert, samtig rund und für die letzten 12 Monate in französischen Merlot Fässern gereift um eine faszinierende Struktur und Tiefe zu entfalten. Verführerisch und warm, fruchtig und lebhaft mit Rot- und Schwarzfrucht Aromen der schwarzen Johannisbeeren aus Wexford und dunklen, süßen Kirschen. Sehr ausgewogen mit bezauberndem Honig Bukett vom Waldhonig und Karamell von den Eichenfässern aus Bordeaux. Ein köstlicher Begleiter im Glas für sich allein oder zu einem guten Essen.
This pours like aged Saint-Émilion in the glass with a garnet centre and brick-coloured rim. Light dark cherry aromas with distinct honeyed notes in the background, sweet red and black fruits on the palate with a crisp (almost tart) cherry finish and lingering subtle soft honey and raspberry notes. Quite delicious and rather fascinating. – Leslie Williams – Irish Examiner
Kinsale Mead Co has upped its impressive game another notch with its latest limited-edition release. Based on forest honey fermented with blackcurrants and black cherries, Merlot Barrel Aged Wild Red Mead is aged for two years, plus one in ex-Merlot barrels. At 12% with generous fruit character and a zingy, off dry finish, it can be enjoyed like a light red wine with charcuterie or salty cheese. – Aoife Carrigy – Irish Independent
