Seasonal mead produced only for the winter season for its typical character. It is cooked with rose hips, collected along the beach. After a year in a regular tank, the mead is aged for another 10 months in oak barrels.
Winter mead is a rich and sweet mead that is dominated by dark and bitter notes, the bitter taste is reminiscent of spruce and rosemary and has characteristics reminiscent of port wine.
Enjoy chilled winter mead with Christmas cookies or as a pleasant drink in gloomy times.
Submission suggestions
• Æbleflæsk - classic Danish
Christmas meal with sautéed pieces of bacon, onions and apples or game goulash
• Desserts with a bitter taste; cherries and nuts, with dark chocolate
• Light cheeses, e.g. smoked cheese
Storage and serving:
• mead should be served in an ordinary white wine glass
• Serve slightly chilled, 10-12˚
• should be stored in a cool place
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.
Metheglin
Metheglin is a type of mead with added (maturated) spices and herbs.
Producer Mjødgård
A popular Danish mead producer
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.