Hidden Legend Winery Mixed Mead

Tasting notes & discussion 75

Typically $18.99/bottle for both The King’s and Pure Honey from Hidden Legend Winery
No Vintage, mead doesn’t have Vintages
Oh yeah, we’re off the rails now
Where we’re going, we don’t need Vintages
Alcohol contents of 12.5%
Sold by Hidden Legend Winery, fulfilled by Wine Country Connect

About Hidden Legend Winery
Though a winery, Hidden Legend’s speciality is traditional honey meads! Founded by Ken Schultz in western Montana after moving from the Great Lakes region, Schultz found that wine grapes were somewhat hard to come by. Back in Ohio, he’d been able to utilize the native varieties, but here, it seemed he’d have to improvise. A neighbor left him with 5 gallons of crystalized honey, and, thinking “why not,” he tried his hand at mead. A full seven years later, he returned to his mead and found that it turned out exceptional! Hidden Legend serves as proof that if you want it, great wine can happen in even the most challenging environments.

Legends of the Hidden Legend Winery

TASTING NOTES:
Pure Honey - “…perfect balance of honey flavor, acidy, and a little bit of oak. This complex honey mead is made using age old wine making techniques substituting honey for grapes to make honey wine. The wildflower honey used to produce this mead wine is a distinct Montana wildflower honey that creates layers of flavor that lend themselves perfectly for food paring.”

The King’s - “The King’s Mead is a traditional style mead that is made in the style of the old world. It has a very smooth sweet honey flavor…If you are looking for a traditional style, sweet, honey mead then this is the one for you! If you want mead that is less sweet, try our award winning Pure Honey Mead.”

TANGENTIALLY RELATED FACT to help you make conversation over this wine:
Legends of the Hidden Temple was a gameshow that aired on Nickelodeon in the early 90’s. Hosted by Kirk Fogg and a talking stone head named Olmec (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker), they’d have teams of kids compete in multiple physical and mental challenges related to a mythological or historical anecdote provided by Olmec, leading up to a run through a maze filled with puzzles and an artifact they needed to recover from within.

DRINK IT FROM/WITH (conventional option):
A tankard? Maybe a drinking horn?? I guess wine glasses also work just as well. Try something with a narrowed rim and wide bowl, close to a white wine glass’s proportions. Try pairing with grilled fish, roast pork, and spicy Asian or Mexican. Kinda like a white wine.

OR (really-going-with-the-theme option):
Your standard-issue 1/10 scale replica of Olmec’s head (mouth open).

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