Restoring balance and connection between human beings and nature through ancient craft mead and regenerative apiculture.
THE WAY OF NATURE
FROM Bloom TO BOTTLE
Pioneering sustainable agricultural and production practices, Thistlerock Mead Company is making the world’s most ancient beverage in a whole new way: with our pollinators, our people, and our planet at the very center of everything we do.
OUR MEADS
This traditional mead using a proprietary blend of local Central Virginia wildflower honeys is a love song to the land that sustains us. Piedmont Wildflower is our foundational mead, the purest representation of Thistlerock’s estate terroir in a glass.
PIEDMONT WILDFLOWER
Tasting notes:
Semi-dry; spring flowers with white pear and honeycomb
750 mL; 12.5% ABV
From ancient Egypt and Rome through today, lavender has long been recognized as one of nature’s most effective healing agents. It’s for this reason we partnered with the Appalachian Botanical Company to create our own liquid elixir – a metheglin lavender mead.
Lavender Fields
Tasting notes:
Dry; light lavender flowers with aromas of mountain wildflower honey
750 mL; 13% ABV
A lush melomel mead fermented with Virginian blackberries, raspberries, strawberries elderberries, as well as our blend of wildflower honeys. A deep, rich, crimson mead best served at room temperature, Forest Red beckons for a second (and third) pour,. In the winter, try this one mulled by a cozy fire.
Forest Red
Tasting notes:
Dry/semi-dry; rich red fruit, with a tangy fruity acidity, honeyed sweetness.
750 mL; 12% ABV
Made with fresh roasted coffee beans from Gambela, Ethiopia, Oaxacan vanilla beans, and a special blend of Ethiopian Geteme honey and Virginia wildflower honey. This mead supports displaced farmers and helps fund education programs for children in refugee camps.
COFFEEMEL
Tasting notes:
Semi-sweet; layers of coffee and vanilla, with notes of rose and spring flowers
750 mL; 12% ABV
ESTATE RESERVE
Our traditional Piedmont Wildflower mead made from our Thistlerock estate honeys, aged in Ragged Branch Distillery’s bourbon whiskey char oak barrels.
Tasting notes:
Initial notes of bourbon and oak with long finishing notes of caramel and butterscotch.
750 mL; 12% ABV
OUR PARTNERS
Our partners bring our mead – and our commitment to nature – to life. Learn about all those who propel us – and those whose work we reinvest in, in return.
