Made with hand-picked spruce tips from around The Rookery, this mead is light and delicate with citrus notes and a strong sense of honey-dew melon. The ending is gently peaty, evocative of a whisky, but much smoother. The spruce tips are picked seasonally, and the harvest is only available for a couple of weeks in May. Inspired by the Sami of northern Scandinavia, spruce is an excellent wild food and it has been used as a food and in shamanic rites back into pre-history. Serve chilled. Try with ginger ale or tonic water for a long drink and it goes well with a measure of either whisky or gin added. Sloe gin and Spruce Mead is an especially good cocktail to try. No sulphites, sugars or syrups are used…ever! Store in a cool, dark place. Shelf-life is in excess of 1 year. 700ml Bottle
