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A fantastic opportunity to taste the difference before and after our Wild Red Mead has matured for over a year in a French Oak Merlot wine barrel. Buy them both and taste side by side and prepare to have your tastebuds explode!
Kinsale Wild Red Mead (12% ABV) is a gorgeous melomel mead fermented off-dry with Irish blackcurrants, dark cherries and pure honey. An amazingly enticing drink with a beautiful, rich colour. It is delicious served at room temperature on its own or with food.
We use Wexford blackcurrants beautifully balanced with the dark cherries, tempered over the hint of honey and matured to a silky smooth finish.
Wild Red Mead – Merlot Barrel Aged (12% ABV) is the first in 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.
Both naturally Gluten Free. Low in sulfites. 70cl bottle.
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A gorgeous melomel mead fermented off-dry with Wexford blackcurrants, dark cherries and raw honey; an amazingly enticing drink with a beautiful, rich colour. The Irish blackcurrants are beautifully balanced with the dark cherries, tempered over the hint of honey and matured to a very smooth finish. Deliciously smooth at room temperature. Low in tannins, this is popular with wine drinkers. (12% ABV)
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 have one of those vacuum pump 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 Wild Red Mead is fine for 3 weeks as there are more natural preservatives from the skins. Then they become more port-like. Barrel Aged Meads are fine up a month, if there’s any left by then.
Wild Red Mead: Great with Italian dishes with a rich tomato sauce or with medieval feast dishes such as roast duck or venison as well as sticky barbecue ribs, sausages and black pudding. Lovely with strong cheeses or good quality chocolate. We love it with Chocolate brownies too and Christmas goodies like mince pies, Christmas cake and pudding.
Wild Red Mead – Merlot Barrel Aged shines with food such as roast rack of lamb and rosemary or mushroom pâté on thin cut toast, Prosciutto or Palma ham or artisan mini sausages or chipolatas.
Atlantic Dry Mead – White Port Barrel Aged shines with food such as smoked salmon crostini, or sushi and sashimi. Great with mackerel or mushroom pate especially if you add a slug into the mix! For a sweet finish try with vanilla fairy cakes or baked cheesecake.
Atlantic Dry Mead – Sauternes Barrel Aged shines with food such as smoked salmon crostini, or sushi or sashimi. Great with mushroom pate especially if you add a slug into the mix! For a sweet finish try with vanilla fairy cakes.
Wild Forest Honey Mead aged in whiskey casks from Midleton Distillery – Warm apple tart and vanilla ice cream or fruit cake with strong cheese or it’s marvellous with sticky toffee pudding!
Wild Forest Honey Mead aged in whiskey casks from Midleton Distillery – Try a coconut and chocolate cake or cheese scones to accompany this semi-sweet mead or just as an after dinner sharing.
Our meads have won many awards including Blas na hEireann, Great Taste Awards, International Mazer Cup, European MMC Cup and Drink of the Year at the Irish Made Awards and Guaranteed Irish Awards and at the Free From Awards Ireland and UK as all our meads are naturally gluten free.
