Mead, one of the oldest alcoholic drinks

Mead (hydromel in French) is one of the oldest known alcoholic drinks. Its recipe fits in three words: water, honey and yeast. We offer several carefully selected ranges of mead, each with its own character.

Handcrafted meads with no added sugar

All our meads are handcrafted using only quality honeys of different varieties. No added sugar or glucose syrup, nothing that alters the product and, of course, no artificial additives.

Sweet, medium-dry, dry or fruity

There is something for every taste. The choice of honey, its initial concentration and the length of ageing determine how sweet the mead will be.

Mead and chouchen

Chouchen is the traditional mead of Brittany. In the past, apple juice was sometimes added to it. Since 1921, the name chouchen has been reserved for mead made the traditional way: water and honey only.

Our mead ranges

• Meads from Occitania: our Clos des Sentinelles meads are made from the honey of 320 bee colonies in Languedoc-Roussillon, in forests, scrubland (garrigue), mountains and along the coast, away from farmland. They are blended at the estate with oenologists and agronomists, and every stage (fermentation, stabilisation, ageing, clarification) is checked by laboratory analysis.
• Sparkling meads: fresh, low in alcohol and flavoured by specific honeys such as lavender, lime blossom or lychee blossom honey. Perfect for a festive aperitif.
• Breton chouchens: premium cuvées, from mellow to dry, produced in limited quantities.
• Infused meads: mead combined with other flavours, such as coffee or elderberries.
• Valhalla hidromiels: the one exception in our selection of French meads, the hidromiels of Bodegas Valhalla, a Spanish mead maker giving this historic drink a modern twist.

Not sure which to choose? Our article Choosing your mead presents each cuvée, and our tasting sets let you compare.