Wild cherry taste of young mead from ripe and fragrant cherries. Compared to cherries, cherries are more aromatic and have a slightly larger cut. It tastes great on ice and heated.
The wild taste of cherries twice differently
This mead will be enjoyed not only by lovers of sour cherry and chocolate cherries. Compared to cherries, cherries are a bit "bolder" in taste and their juiciness is beautifully complemented by mead. Cherries ripen in the sun and fresh air near our village. We loaded them into the mead whole and with the seeds. After fermentation, we tasted the young and beautifully fragrant cherry mead and the satisfaction with the result was great. But we encountered an interesting dilemma.
We always honestly taste each new mead honestly and find out in what form its uniqueness stands out so that we can recommend you how to best enjoy it. However, in the case of wild cherry mead, we cannot decide whether it tastes better chilled or heated.
Chilled - either ice cold or directly on ice - is just great and will fully reveal the taste of ripe cherries. If you heat the mead, it will reward you with an amazing and very delicate cherry scent. From the balanced taste of fruit and honey, a light sweetness emerges on the surface, and with each sip and each additional glass, the taste of honey gives way and the taste of cherries stands out. Towards the end of the palate there is no smell of honey, only a breath of memory of honest fruit compote from Grandma will remain.
We were really surprised how each method of serving with this mead will bring a different, but in both cases amazing experience of taste. Be sure to try both variants, we will be happy if you help us decide!
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 Pleva
Pleva's beekeeping company includes an assortment of not only mead, but also other bee products and cosmetics. Mead is cold-produced.
The production plant of the Pleva beekeeping company includes an assortment of not only mead, but also other bee products and cosmetics. Mead is made cold.
The Pleva family business is located in the spa town of Potštejn in the picturesque foothills of the Eagle Mountains. It specializes in the processing of medicinal bee products (honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis and bee venom) into cosmetics and food supplements. However, the most interesting thing for us is the production of meads, in which the people of Plevo specialize in single-species meads.
They have been raising bees since 1969 and processing bee products since 1990. However, they only started producing mead around 2003, initially in smaller quantities. From the beginning, they wanted to follow a honey-friendly path and also had the goal of offering something new, unique, which is missing on the market. They officially started offering mead only in 2008. The first mead was herbal and distinctly bitter, they also produced several honey liqueurs with nut and herbal variants. In the end, however, they focused on a quite unique but most interesting category of meads, which consists of meads made from one type of honey. The current offer includes acacia, linden, sunflower and forest honey meads, which are real delicacies and are popular for their distinct aroma and taste of original honey. Potštejn mead is fermented from classic flower honey.
The maturation period of meads is at least 1 year, but some meads have been refining their flavor for 5 years.
We at the Mead Museum from Plevů also buy some types of honey cosmetics.