Violet Aura

Winter 2025

Mead Details:

This mead is made from Mexican Wildflower honey. After its initial aging, we put it into a Wilderness Trail bourbon barrel. The barrel previously held not just whiskey but most recently our Malbec wine. 

This mead will be around 12 months old before bottling. 

We use EC1118 yeast. 

Karl’s tasting notes,

Ages ago now we made ourselves our first non-mead, as a little test in our Tasting Room; a Malbec wine. This wine sat in the background of our menu, enjoyed by curious customers, but through it came the foundations for a new mead. This mead, the Violet Aura now sits before me. The normal yellow-gold hues of the wildflower honey have been stained rosé-red just from the barrel. I have high hopes!

The nose is fascinating! At a glancing sniff, so-to-speak, my biggest observation is how its like the honey is battling for attention over the barrel’s insistent onslaught. The more I open the Aura up, however, the battle blends into honey sweet, barrel richness with the wine fruit undertones keeping it together.

As for the taste, we start with the Malbec’s ghost and barrel notes. The honey washes over to calm down the would-be dry and finally the rest of the wine’s debut concludes. Each sip is another battle. From the Wilderness Trail Bourbon, the original inhabitant of the barrel, trying to add a toasty smoothness. To the sweet honey nectar, carrying the sweetest fruit notes from the wine. Or the all encompassing Malbec tannin in the background. All of these things come together and vie for your attention with a chaotic order about it. Very fascinating and unique!!