Hi Boris61, and welcome to my place. Actually, honewine *is* mead, that is, wine made with honey instead of grapes. However, there are a number of places that make a wine *with* honey (like Bunratty Meade from Ireland), where a finished white wine has honey and/or spices added to make it mead-like.
If you live in NJ, you've several choices for trying mead.
First is one in your own state, Heritage Wines (formerly known as Saba Tej. You can find them here (you'll want to call, it looks like their website is down at the moment):
Heritage Wines (Organic Mead)
15 Park Avenue, Suite 211
Rutherford, NJ 07070
(888-7 SABA TEJ (772-2283)
800-910-AXUM (2986)
(201) 438-9994
info@heritagewines.com
In nearby NY, you have several choices:
http://www.gotmead.com/commercial-mead/us-meaderies.shtml#NY
I highly recommend Long Island Meadery, they have meads ranging from very dry to very sweet, and lots of flavors. It would be an ideal way to not only taste mead, but taste *different* meads, and see what you think you'll like when you start making it.
Meanwhile, stroll around here, check out the main website (
http://www.gotmead.com) and learn! This is a great forum, due to the many wonderful posters we have here, and I think if I counted up all the years of meadmaking experience, we'd have something over a 1000 years of combined experience (not bad for one of the worlds' oldest fermented beverages!).
Once again welcome!
Vicky