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Seth8530

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I have to confess that i have never tried mead in my life before and i was looking for some recommendations of some good mead that is mail order. Price needs to be reasonable. Not much higher than 20 ish...

I would like perhaps a good dry, semi and a sweet recommendation please ( :

I live in TN if that matters.
 
B Nektar has a great Margarita style melomel, not too sweet, kinda pricey but I recommend it if you want to know what skilled folks can do. Their Orange Blossom Sweet was probably just too sweet for me. I haven't tried but a couple other Meaderies and they were too spiced for me. Everyone has different tastes though so It's not something I can pass judgement on. B Nektar isn't hard to find on the internet and if you can deal with the shipping it's available, do a search on Redstone as well.
 
While we all have personal favorites amongst the offerings of commercial meaderies, if you're really looking to calibrate your palate to the taste of more universally recognized stellar examples of mead, you should investigate the winners in commercial mead competitions.

Let me suggest that you go to the Mazer Cup commercial results webpage: http://www.mazercup.com/mci_meadery_results.htm

There you'll find the award winners from the past three years, of the world's largest commercial mead competition. You can then Google the winning meaderies' websites and find out if they can ship to your part of the world. Many (if not most) of the meads that have medaled in MCI competitions are priced at less than $20 per bottle, and ordering directly from the meadery ensures that you get product that has been under their supervision and control right up to the point that the bottles get shipped to you.

Although I like to patronize my local wine shops whenever possible, the fact of the matter is that direct mail order from the meaderies themselves is often the only way to get award winning meads in many parts of the country.
 
wayneb said:
...Although I like to patronize my local wine shops whenever possible, the fact of the matter is that direct mail order from the meaderies themselves is often the only way to get award winning meads in many parts of the country.
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Plus, the person who profits from your purchase is the person who made the mead. It's like Fair Trade for winemankers.
 
wayneb said:
While we all have personal favorites amongst the offerings of commercial meaderies, if you're really looking to calibrate your palate to the taste of more universally recognized stellar examples of mead, you should investigate the winners in commercial mead competitions.

Let me suggest that you go to the Mazer Cup commercial results webpage: http://www.mazercup.com/mci_meadery_results.htm

There you'll find the award winners from the past three years, of the world's largest commercial mead competition. You can then Google the winning meaderies' websites and find out if they can ship to your part of the world. Many (if not most) of the meads that have medaled in MCI competitions are priced at less than $20 per bottle, and ordering directly from the meadery ensures that you get product that has been under their supervision and control right up to the point that the bottles get shipped to you.

Although I like to patronize my local wine shops whenever possible, the fact of the matter is that direct mail order from the meaderies themselves is often the only way to get award winning meads in many parts of the country.
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Do you own a wine shop or a winery? And thanks for the advice i will do that.. great idea!:tongue8:

TheAlchemist: Thanks for the link
 
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