Mead with natural wallnut flavor.
Mead from the Highlands is made by the traditional method of fermentation and long maturation of a thick honey base. Long-term testing has created a family recipe according to which we always try to create a delicious drink that brings you the pleasure of a good drink.
We recommend drinking it chilled or, conversely, heated to a temperature of around 40 C.
mead
Mead is an alcoholic beverage fermented from honey and water, with possibility of addition of other ingredients such as spices or herbs or in combination with fruit juices.
Type of honey
Blossom honey or nectar comes from the nectar of various flowers.
Production process
This mead is not cooked, however, during its production, the honey was heated above 50 °C for a limited time. It could be heated up to temperatures of 80 °C, when some components of honey may be degraded.
Producer Vcelarstvi Slama
Slama family is running bee-keeping business in Havlíčkův Brod at Vysocina - mountainous region in the Czech republic. They also produce delicious mead according to the traditional Bohemian recipe.
The bee farm in Chlístov near Havlíčkov Brod mainly deals with the production of mead, the most popular recently being Old Bohemian mead.
Jiří Sláma has been beekeeping since childhood, and now he has over 170 bee colonies, which he does not care for because it is stressful for the bees. The bees are placed in habitats where nectar-bearing flowers with lots of pollen, as well as forests with honeydew, are within reach all year round.
He has been fully devoted to beekeeping and the production of mead since 2000. The mead matures in a deep cellar for at least a year. The offer presents several types of mead. Medovina z Vysočina is completely natural, even in the bio mead variant. Since 2012, it has also been producing Old Bohemian mead, which contains up to 45% honey and matures in oak barrels, according to an older recipe. The recipe comes from the 1950s.