Mead from young nuts of the Potštejn garden. Limited edition original walnut mead - another unique mead. A rich and velvety taste that warms you. A delicious mead for relaxing moments.
How is mead made from young walnuts?
It has a rich, velvety taste, slightly reminiscent of dark caramel, which pleasantly warms and a wonderfully sparkling color like a fire in the fireplace. Compared to our other meads, mead made from young walnuts is somehow wonderfully "less honeyed", because the main word in its taste is clearly taken over by nuts. In short, a delicious mead for relaxing moments :-)
Why young green walnuts?
In the spring of 2018, Milan Pleva came across a recipe for making liqueur from green walnuts. And because he is always looking for new ways to enrich meads with other wonderful substances, he was impressed by the high content of vitamin C, the ability to detoxify the body, prevent fatigue and depression, and much more in young unripe walnuts. So you thought, why not put them in our beloved honey drink?
In June 2018, the walnut trees in garden were covered with green hairs, so it was the right time for collection. After fermentation, the mead acquired a wonderful green color! During gradual tasting, it changed both color and taste. In autumn 2019, it reached its peak taste, so you can finally taste it too!
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.
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.
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.