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Jack Ratt Spiced Mead by Lyme Bay Winery is a rich, medium-sweet mead bursting with golden honey flavours and warm, festive cinnamon spices. This is the same as the winery’s Christmas Mead and is made by fermenting honey and water, which is then flavoured with a secret blend of natural spices. Slightly sweeter than the Jack Ratt Traditional Mead upon which it is based, this is a beautifully balanced, dangerously smooth, and perfectly suited for cosy evenings – it can also be served warm as a mulled mead.
Jack Ratt Spiced Mead won Gold at the Food & Drink Devon Awards 2024/25, further reinforcing its reputation for exceptional quality. Buy now at Fareham Wine Cellar, grab a drinking horn and live out your Game of Thrones fantasies!
Situated in the beautiful East Devon countryside, Lyme Bay Winery has been producing award-winning drinks since the early 1990s. Best known for its English wines, fruit wines, ciders, spirits and meads, the winery combines traditional production methods with modern winemaking expertise.
Mead is thought to be one of the oldest alcoholic drinks produced, dating back to Babylonian times, and it is thought by many to be an elixir of health, fertility and longevity. It is mentioned in both Beowulf and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. It is made by fermenting honey and water with yeast. It is sometimes known as Honey wine.
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”
Jack Ratt Spiced Mead is a bright golden amber colour.
On the nose, fragrant blossom honey mingles with cinnamon, clove, gentle nutmeg, and hints of orange zest.
The palate is smooth and rounded—rich honey sweetness balanced by warming baking spices, subtle floral notes, and refreshing acidity that keeps it from cloying.
The finish is long, mellow, and gently spicy, with lingering honeycomb flavours.
One of the pleasures of Jack Ratt Spiced Mead is its versatility. It works particularly well with:
This Spiced Mead can be served warmed and spiced or at room temperature. It can also be made into a long drink with apple juice and soda and served over ice.
Jack Ratt Spiced Mead is an English mead made by Lyme Bay Winery using fermented honey and a carefully selected blend of warming spices, producing a rich, smooth and aromatic drink.
Expect flavours of honey, cinnamon, clove, gentle baking spices and floral notes, balanced by refreshing acidity and a long, warming finish.
It is delicious lightly chilled, served over ice or at cellar temperature. During winter it can also be gently warmed.
It pairs particularly well with mature cheeses, blue cheese, spicy chutneys, fruit desserts, ginger cake and festive puddings.
Yes, it is naturally sweet from the honey, but balanced acidity and spice prevent it from becoming cloying.
It is produced by Lyme Bay Winery in Devon, one of England’s leading producers of award-winning wines, meads and spirits.
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