Get Meadieval On Your Palate
It isn’t just the visible seams on the chintzy plastic helmets, or the bath mats repurposed as loin cloths. It’s the booze. Face it, no matter how bejeweled the wrought-iron chalice you pour it into, cheap sangria is cheap sangria.
But take heart, for hope joins the battle! This highly-rated, award-winning Chaucer’s Mead Quartet delivers yesterday’s taste today, bringing an earthy authenticity to any pageant, feast, or faire, including the uninspiring likes of your Viking parties. And don’t worry – just because it’s named after Chaucer doesn’t mean it’s made in England. This be Calyfornyae wyne, goode sirre.
And now, Douglas, your bottles four! You’ll get two bottles of Chaucer’s Mead, a distinctively rich dessert-style wine blended from three different types of honey: floral-smelling orange blossom honey, spicy toyon honey (toyon’s a member of the sage family), and dark, amber-hued alfalfa. It would’ve been easier for Chaucer’s Cellars to add artificial flavorings, colorings, or concentrates. But they didn’t need gimmicks like that in the original Chaucer’s day. If pure fermented honey was good enough to lighten the way on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, it’s good enough for us.
You will find a titch of trickery about the other two bottles here – Chaucer’s Raspberry Mead – but only of the mildest sort. This fruity variation on a honeyed theme is made by adding a splash of Chaucer’s Raspberry Wine (15%) to the aforementioned Chaucer’s Mead (85%). Don’t get your breeches in a bunch, traditionalists. People’ve been mixing up mead and fruity wine for so long, there’s even a name for it: Melomel. Less sweet than regular mead and less regular than sweet mead, Chaucer’s Raspberry Mead will make you holler “Forsooth!”
So raise high the goblet, Douglas, for tonight we drink mead! Yep, that’s what we’ll say a few weeks from now, after our Chaucer’s Mead Quartet arrives.
Features
- Package includes two 750 mL bottles
- Alcohol: 11%
- Appellation: California
Chaucer's Raspberry Mead (Honey Wine/Raspberry Wine blend)
- Package includes one 500 mL bottle
- Appellation: California
- Orchard Source: Sweet Briar, Inc., Watsonville, California
- Harvest Season: May 15 – Nov. 15
- Total Acidity: 0.79 g/100 mls
- Residual Sugar: 11.2% by weight
- Alcohol: 10.5%
- Winemakers: Michael Sones & Eleni Papadakis
Specs
Chaucer's Mead - 750 mLChaucer's Raspberry Mead - 500 mL
Specs
Chaucer's Mead - 750 mLChaucer's Raspberry Mead - 500 mL
Vendor Details
Chaucer’s Cellars
- Founded:
- 1933
- Owner:
- Bargetto Family
- Location:
- Soquel, CA, Santa Cruz Mountains Appellation
Since 1964, Chaucer’s Cellars, part of Bargetto Winery, has produced gold-medal-winning wines for knave and knight alike. Nothing but 100% pure fruit or natural honey goes into each bottle, and nothing but total mead bliss comes out, for a flavor that falls as melodiously upon the palate as Chaucer’s poetry falls upon the ear. As for Bargetto, they’ve been producing life-affirming hand-crafted wines in the Santa Cruz Mountains since 1933 – not quite back in Chaucer’s day, but still pretty impressive.
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