An exceptional, unique mead, a lively, attractive drink with a decadent richness. This mead won the Drink of the Year award from the Irish Food Writers’ Guild.
Wild Red Mead - Merlot Barrel Aged is a wonderful 3-year-old berry mead fermented to semi-dry. The result is an exceptional, unique mead, a lively, attractive drink with a decadent richness.
Enticing and warm, juicy with flavors of bright red and black fruit from Wexford blackcurrants and dark sweet cherries, well balanced with attractive honey notes of forest honey and caramel from Bordeaux oak barrels.
Our beautiful label was inspired by the story of the 'Wild Geese' of Irish people who emigrated in waves from Ireland to the Continent at the end of the Jacobite Wars and settled in France to trade and make wine. Today in Bordeaux, you will find the names of these hardy Irish emigrants on the streets and vineyards of the region – Lynch, Barton, Boyd, Phelan – along with other trade connections to Ireland's wine ports.
Kinsale was a thriving port in the 18th century, one of several in Ireland licensed to import wines from France, Spain and Portugal. The harbor and warehouses were full of casks of the best wines, port and sherry. In a sense we are coming full circle and bringing those precious casks back to Ireland.
All bottles hand numbered and signed. Naturally gluten free.
