Mead Spotlight!

Spotlight on Atheling Meads

$28.99 for the 750ml bottles
Honey wine / Melomel / Pyment

Let’s be clear on this one point … we weren’t looking to bring in another mead. Don’t get us wrong — we love our mead; we drink our meads; yay mead. However, we already had a nice selection. We were cool. Then the guy from Atheling Meadworks came up from Roanoke and paid us a visit.

It’s possible that one of the reasons that Atheling meads are so good is that Dr. Stephen Ausband — Atheling’s founder — has been playing with fermenting honey since he was 14. What was an interest and then a hobby has now become a brand that we have three of.

Lyres Song (Honey Wine) — a beautifully complex, semisweet mead made of raspberry blossom honey. (It’s quickly become a hit this holiday season.)

Shield Maiden (Melomel) — Raspberry blossom honey again, but this time mixed with blackberries and then aged in oak

Eir’s Song (Pyment) — a semisweet mead made from wildflower honey and Merlot grapes and then aged in heavily toasted French oak barrels