Jack Ratt Black Cherry Mead, Lyme Bay Winery 11%

Description

Jack Ratt Black Cherry Mead is traditional honey mead flavoured with black cherry. A mead made with fruit is known as a “Melomel”.

Jack Ratt Traditional Mead is made by the Lyme Bay Winery who are based at Shute, near Axminster, in Dorset. Lyme Bay Cider was founded 20 years ago in 1994 and has grown from a small shop selling cider to a large winery producing ciders, wines, meads, liqueurs and has more recently expanded greatly into English Wines.

Mead, also known as the “Nectar of the Gods” is  one of the oldest known alcoholic beverages, with a history dating back thousands of years. Mead is often associated with ancient cultures and folklore, and it has been enjoyed in various forms by different civilizations around the world. It is mentioned in both Beowulf and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. 

The basic ingredients for mead are honey, water, and yeast. The process of making mead involves dissolving the honey in water to create a mixture called “must.” Yeast is then added to the must, which converts the sugars in the honey into alcohol through the process of fermentation. The fermentation can take several weeks to several months, depending on the desired flavor and strength of the mead.

Jack Ratt Black Cherry Mead is Jack Ratt mead blended with natural black cherry flavours. It is less acoholic and sweeter than their traditional mead.

Jack Ratt meads are named after a famous 18th Century local smuggler called Jack Rattenbury who was known as the “Rob Roy of the West”. In 1837, after a life at sea as a fisherman, pilot, seaman and smuggler, Rattenbury wrote the book “Memoirs of a smuggler, compiled from his diary and journal: containing the principal events in the life of John Rattenbury, of Beer, Devonshire; commonly called “The Rob Roy of the West”.