Given the bias towards berries, you may wonder whether these meads have some passing resemblance to young ruby port wines or perhaps even to a Korean raspberry wine called bokbunja. Among the ...

and a tart-sweet blackberry mead, all three available at wine stores across Long Island (I found them at Post Wines in Syosset) and each falling between 13 and 15.5 percent alcohol. Since honey ...

to the super-juicy raspberry-blackberry palate of the Marion Mead. “At its base, it’s a honey wine. Then it gets super-complex, because you can use all types of honey,” Davies says.

Where wine is made by fermenting grapes, mead is produced from honey ... like hops and fruits from nearby farms, including blackberry, pineapple, pomegranate and lime. “We’re constantly ...