The Gourmez

Sweet Peach Mead Starrlight Meadery The color of this mead is gorgeous—no, it’s not peach, but more of a gold with a pink hue to it. I could stare at it for hours. Okay, that’s a lie; I could never refrain from drinking a poured glass for that long. It smells first of honey and [...]

Starrlight Meadery Blackberry Off-Dry Mead North Carolina This honey wine is made from combining Starrlight Meadery’s off-dry traditional mead with blackberry juice in the final step of the winemaking process. It most definitely smells of blackberry, which is lovely. I found the sweet version too sweet, but this off-dry form is very appealing to me. [...]

Starrlight Meadery Traditional Off-Dry North Carolina     Mr. Gourmez’s first, and only, thought on this honey wine from Starrlight Meadery in Pittsboro, was “popsicles.” I would disagree. It smelled like green apples and tasted, unsurprisingly, of honey and flowers. This is a dry mead, so it wasn’t nearly as sweet as I’d expect from [...]

Starrlight Meadery 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro Website Hours: Thurs through Sat, 12 to 6; Sun 1 to 5. Tours offered every other hour on the weekends I had a great time checking out Starlight Meadery a couple of weekends ago in Pittsboro’s Chatham Mills shopping center. They are located in the white building hiding at [...]