Australian/New Zealand Meads

[Entheo]

Hi all,

as part of my project on alcohol from native plants, I have built a list of Meads I have found so far that are made in Australian/New Zealand.

** means its produced from honey derived from a native plant

* means it might be, or it has some native plant material in it

? means Im still working on finding out (this is a work in progress)

Meaderies

Western Australia

**Bartholomews Meadery

RMB 1067, South Coast Highway

Denmark WA 6333

Phone/Fax: (08) 9840 9349

Dry Honey Mead 750ml (various Eucalypt honeys)

Medium Honey Mead 750ml

Sweet Honey Mead 750ml

Metheglin 750ml

Honey Liqueur 375ml

Blackwood Meadery

Lot 1 Brockmany Highway,

Karridale WA 6288

Ph: 08 9758 2332 Fax: 08 6210 5960

Honey

Honey and Peach

Dry Honey

Blueberry Rose Honey

South Australia

*Chateau Dorrien

Cnr Barossa Valley Way & Seppeltsfield Road,

Tanunda SA 5352

Ph. (08) 8562 2850 Fax. (08) 8562 1416

Sweet Honey Mead (clover honey)

Spicy Mead (Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cloves)

Scarlet Mead (Chocolate and Cinnamon)

Gran Miele (Jaffa - Chocolate and Orange)

Quandong (uses a native fruit - one star)

Fragolella Mead (Fresh Strawberries / Honey)

Limoncello Mead (Tangy Lemon with Sweet Honey)

Amaretto Liqueur Mead (Roasted Almond)

Fernangela Liqueur Mead (Hazelnut Liqueur)

Dennis Wines

PO Box 30

McLaren Vale, SA 5171

Ph: 08) 8323 8665 Fax: 08 8323 9121

Sweet Mead (ground cover honey)

Spiced Mead

Maxwell Wines

Olivers Road

McLaren Vale, SA 5171

Ph: 08 8323 8200 Fax: 08 8323 8900

Honey Mead (Lucerne honey)

Spiced Mead (Lucerne honey)

Liqueur Mead (Lucerne honey)

?Twin Valley Estate

Hoffnungstahl Rd

Lyndoch, SA 5351

Ph: 08 8524 4584

Mead

Victoria

**Mt. Markey Winery

PO Box 160,

Swifts Creek, VIC 3896.

Phone: (03) 5159 4328 Fax: (03) 5159 4599

Hours: daily 10am-5pm; closed Tue

Olde Horny (Yellow Box honey)

Rose of Australia Honey Meade (aged Yellow Box honey)

**Walkabout Apiaries

Snow Road,

MILAWA VIC 3678,

Phone: 61-3-5727 3468

Fax; 61-3-5727 3469

Eucalyptus Mead (River red gum honey)

Spice Mead (Stringybark honey)

Dry Mead (clover)

Tasmania

Taverner's Mead

1 Nichols Street,

GLENORCHY, Tasmania 7010

Ph: (03) 6273 2466 Fax: (03) 6273 2467

'Good Ale' Mead (clover)

(also used to make a tea tree mead)

New South Wales

*Dutton’s Meadery

59 Barraba St,

Manilla, NSW 2346

Ph: 02 6785 1148 Fax: 02 6785 1247

several meads - some use Eucalypt honey or ground cover honey, depending on the season.

?Long Point Vineyard

6 Cooinda Place

Lake Cathie NSW 2445

Ph: (02) 6585 4598 Fax: (02) 6584 8915

Pyramead Liqueur Mead

**Mount Vincent Mead

Common Road

Mudgee, NSW 2850

Ph/Fax: 02 6372 3184

several meads use various Eucalypt honeys

(if you can still find them)

?Windarra Winery

266 Debeyers Road

Pokolbin, NSW 2320

Ph/Fax: (02) 4998 7648

Honey Meade

Queensland

**Barambah Ridge Winery, Vineyard & Cellar Door

79 Goschnicks Rd, Redgate via Murgon, Qld

P.O. Box 108, Murgon 4605

Phone: (07) 4168 4766

Fax: (07) 4168 4770

Honey Mead (Eucalypt honey)

**Dingo Creek

265 Tandur Traveston Rd, Traveston Qld 4570

Phone 07 5485 1731 Fax 07 5485 0041

Honey Mead (Blue Gum honey)

Macadamia Mead (Macadamia honey)

Felsberg Winery

116 Townsends Rd

Glen Alpin QLD 4381

Phone: 07 4683 4332

Fax : 07 4683 4377

Honey Mead

**Norse Wines

24 Damascus Rd

Gin Gin Qld

Phone: 07 4157 3636

Fax: 07 4157 3637

Norse Gold Mead Liqueur (Mangrove honey)

Rimfire Vineyards & Winery

Bismarck Street

Maclagan QLD 4352

Phone: (07) 4692 1129

Liqueur Mead

**Tamborine Mountain Distillery

87-91 Beacon Road

North Tamborine, QLD 4272

Ph/Fax: 07 5545 3452

Honey Vodka (Ironwood honey - lots of native trees are known as Ironwood, I have no idea what species it is)

?Wonbah Estate Winery & Vineyard

302 Wonbah Road,

Wonbah Via Gin Gin,

Queensland 4671

Ph: (07) 4156 3029 Fax: (07) 4156 3035

Honey Mead Liqueur

New Zealand

?Bulmer Harvest

Customhouse Street

Gisborne, New Zealand

Ph: +64 6868 8300 Fax: +64 6868 4742

First Knight Mead

Mead liqueur

?Celtic Organic Winery

24 Hokio Beach Road

Levin, New Zealand

Ph: +64 6368 4465 Fax: +64 6367 0080

Celtic Mead

**Cottage Wines

81 Branch Road

New Plymouth, New Zealand

Ph/Fax: +64 6758 6910

Mead Medium (Taranaki honey)

Red Mead Medium (Melomel of Mead and Boysenberry)

**Haewai Meadery

236 Houghton Bay Road

Houghton Bay, Wellington, New Zealand

Ph: +64 4387 9541

Festive Mead (multifloral? pohutukawa, tawari or kamahi)

?Havills Meadery

Plasketts Road, R D 1

Fernside, Rangiora 8254, New Zealand

Ph/Fax: +64 3313 7733

Authentic Medium Mead (clover honey)

Authentic Dry Mead (clover honey)

Authentic Rata Mead

Summer Mead (clover honey)

?The Honey Hive

Huka Falls Loop Rd

Wairakei Park, Taupo, New Zealand

Ph/Fax: +64 4298 1717

Lovers Mead

Winter Mead

Bees Nees Cream Liqueur

?Nectar Wines

PO Box 72

Golden Bay, New Zealand

Ph: +64 027 414 2710

Le Champs de Miel

**Valhalla Wines

State Highway 1

Otaki, Wellington, New Zealand

Ph/Fax: +64 4565 1056

Manuka 'Sack' Mead (Manuka honey)

Moonlight Rose

Gewurtmede

Wintermede

Gingermede (+ ginger spice)

Moonlight Silver

Moonlight Gold

Heather Gold Liqueur Mead (Heather and Manuka honey)

Manuka Gold Liqueur Mead (Manuka honey)

**Virgin Gold

PO Box 185

Cromwell, Central Otago, New Zealand

Ph: +64 3445 4141 Mobile +64 27 445 4143

Manuka Honey Mead (Manuka honey)

Kamahi honey mead (kamahi honey)

Virgin Gold Honey Mead (rata honey)

?Waireka Honey

Cnr SH1 & Rongotea Road

Manawatu, New Zealand

Ph: +64 6324 8224 Fax: +64 6324 8098

Waireka Gold

So any additions, corrections, free samples would be great

[Rev]

Entheo:

Western Australia

**Bartholomews Meadery

RMB 1067, South Coast Highway

Denmark WA 6333

Phone/Fax: (08) 9840 9349

Dry Honey Mead 750ml (various Eucalypt honeys)

Medium Honey Mead 750ml

Sweet Honey Mead 750ml

Metheglin 750ml

Honey Liqueur 375ml

So any additions, corrections, free samples would be great

Medium Honey Mead 750ml - very nice

but all gone

Metheglin 750ml

have a bottle left, saving to serve warm in midwinter :drool:

So r u needing a 'sample' as it a few mls or a sample as in a bottle? I could help u with the former but i aint giving away my last!

i will go back there whenever i get over there again

im also going to make my own mead in the near future. that was good stuff!!!! and honeys only $6/kg in bulk locally

[smogs]

i would b interested to see how that goes... also while we are in this seciton and topic does anyone know any info about a tree that the Aborigines used to drink colelcted sap at the base after it had fermented?

i remember seeing that on a bush tucker man or something simular years and years ago

[incognito]

i have heard of that smogs,i thought it was some spp of acacia?? im more than likely totally wrong,just from memory.

:cool:

[Entheo]

Hi Smogs

 

smogs:

i would b interested to see how that goes... also while we are in this seciton and topic does anyone know any info about a tree that the Aborigines used to drink colelcted sap at the base after it had fermented?

i remember seeing that on a bush tucker man or something simular years and years ago

its Eucalyptus gunnii, the Cider Gum.

Its probably one of the most popular gums in the UK due to its cold tolerence, as it grows on the mountains of Tassie.

http://trees.stanford.edu/ENCYC/EUCgun.htm

"Specimens of that species called the cider-tree, from its extruding a quantity of saccharine liquid resembling molasses. When allowed to remain some time and to ferment, it settles into a coarse sort of wine or cider, rather intoxicating if drank to any excess."

yep, this one is also in the book (in the sap wine chapter), and someone in Gippsland, Victoria has a plantation as they hope to harvest the syrup.

[Entheo]

Hiya Rev

 

Rev:

Medium Honey Mead 750ml - very nice    

but all gone  

Metheglin 750ml

have a bottle left, saving to serve warm in midwinter   :drool:

So r u needing a 'sample' as it a few mls or a sample as in a bottle? I could help u with the former but i aint giving away my last!

i will go back there whenever i get over there again

im also going to make my own mead in the near future. that was good stuff!!!! and honeys only $6/kg in bulk locally

Well I was hopeing to find someone who is overthere (or in South Australia) and is coming out for 'Entheogenesis Australis' and can pickup some bottles for which i can pay them back.

And I want to hear about how your experiments go.

[nabraxas]

i've never tried Aussi meads. i gave up after sampling various meads in the UK--mainly Cornwall.

none ov the meads i've tried since have ever compared to the first mead i sampled.

Lindisfarne(Holy Island) mead made by the monks (the same guys who made the Lindisfarne Bible

That mead was more ov a honey liquer--& boy did it slip down smoothly--whereas most ov the meads i've tried since were more honey beers---nothing like "the real thing"

---for a description ov how mead & the honeymoon are related, click the first link.

[Rev]

ok

will post a new thread

so busy atm with web stuff and creating a new garden before the frosts come

will start a new post / experiment when i get the mead going incl recipe in case anyone else want to try at the same time

BTW has anyone ever added henbane seeds to beer?

or know the amounst used?