The limited edition of the very sweet cherry mead for the palate is produced using the cold method in the family company Pleva in Potštejn with the ripest cherries in Hradec Králové.
How does Cherry Mead taste to the palate?
If you like sweet and straw wines, you will love this mead. It is really sweet, reflecting the fruity sugariness of the ripest Potštejn cherries. We recommend enjoying it on ice - the cold softens the strong sweet aroma and you will be able to enjoy the taste of cherries better. When you drink it, you may remember cherry juice from the garden or eating bubble tea in your childhood. In addition to good memories, cherry mead will also bring you a positive mood :-)
How is honest cherry mead made?
We liquefy high-quality honey by heating it, add water, nutritional salt and yeast. Mix mashed cherries from our garden into the prepared mead. The mead ferments for about a month, after which we strain it and remove the cherries. A mead is created, which we have to let settle for approximately 2 months and then we can pour it into another container. By turning it over, the mead becomes clear and can begin to mature. Since then, our cherry mead has stood in the cellar and matured until today, when we carefully bottle it in our exceptionally good autumn range.
Cold production
Our meads are produced by a cold fermentation process. Therefore, if you drink any mead from our family business - you can be sure that neither the honey nor the mead has been boiled, nor have we used high temperatures in the production. That is why mead preserves all the beneficial substances from honey.
Fresh and honest
cherry mead
"In the summer, I spend the maximum amount of time in our blossoming garden. My attention was not lost on the cherries, which were frequently visited by blackbirds, it was obvious that they liked them very much. When the cherries were beautifully dark, sweet and juicy, it was time to load them into the mead. It immediately acquired a beautiful dark pink color and after 15 months of maturation, it also has a wonderful sweet taste."
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.
Type of honey
Blossom honey or nectar comes from the nectar of various flowers.
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.
Awards
The cherry mead placed 3rd in the cherry mead category at the Mead Madness Cup 2022 world mead competition.
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.