Trelleborgs were Scandinavian ring forts, and with this mead Mjødgård aimed to recreate a drink that warriors might have enjoyed on special occasions. It is a sweet apple-and-elderberry mead, where the richness is balanced by a heightened acidity.
During its creation, apples and elderberries were added to honey to produce a refreshing, sweet-yet-lightly-tart beverage of inviting red hue.
The nose offers a fruity aroma subtly underpinned by honeyed depth. The fruit character carries through to the palate with an almost wine‑like quality. The sweetness remains full and pronounced, beautifully offset by acidity and a gently spiced finish. This mead makes an intriguing alternative to a classic ruby Port.
Thanks to its higher acidity, it pairs best with salty and rich dishes: salted pork or æbleflæsk (pork belly fried with apples), roast goose at Christmas, smoked ham, and salmon. As a dessert accompaniment, serve it with apple cake or tarts and with blue cheeses such as Danablu or Stilton.
Serve lightly chilled, at 8–10 °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.
Melomel
Melomel is a fruit mead with is fermented from honey and fruit juices.
Production process
This mead was made cold. This means that during its production, the honey was not heated above 40-45 °C, which is the normal temperature in nature to which honey is resistant. At higher temperatures, some precious components of honey can be damaged and degraded. Cold-made mead is the best choice.
Producer Mjødgård
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We bring you the first swallow from Denmark in the form of honestly and artisanally produced Mjødgård brand meads. The mead farm was founded in 2008 by Odd Castmar with a clear vision and a written manifesto that set Mjødgård apart from other, as they say, "mead mixers" at the time.
Mjødgård should produce honest mead from local honey, local ingredients, herbs, go through artisanal production, the result of which will be a purely fermented product. Sufficient time should have been left for fermentation and maturation.
Mjødgård meads should have a delicate clean taste, which is given by the honey used, or traditional ingredients.
The production of Mjødgård mead should be sustainable, from local ingredients, gentle on honey.
In Denmark, just like in the Czech Republic and many other countries, honest and unfortunately more expensive mead has to compete with supermarket mead, which only looks like mead, is cheap and mixed in such a way that many people like it. Mjødgård meads gave me a taste and I believe they will appeal to you too.