Kickass Currant, Family Reserve
Bronze Medal Winner, Northwest Wine Summit 2008
CAD $29.95 – 500ml
13.3% Alc/Vol .. PH 5.5 .. RS 2 degrees brix .. 166 cases
Fruit Source - black currant, wildflower honey, lightly aged in oak
A modern style of mead, this full bodied wine has a robust fruity nature. A rich Cassis flavour with intense mouth appeal combines with a subtle honey background and a kiss of oak. Try this wine with cured and red meats or wild game. Serve at cellar temperature. This mead will cellar for up to 10 years.
Solstice Metheglin
Silver Medal Winner, Northwest Wine Summit 2008
CAN $19.00 – 750 ml
13% Alc/Vol .. PH 3.3 .. RS 4 degrees brix .. 222 cases
Fruit Source – honey, ginger root, and spice,-no fruit- barrel aged in French oak
A family recipe with a modern twist. Wildflower Honey and a blend of ginger and spices is added to pure water and fermented with special yeast. Aged for 6 months in French Oak barrels, this off dry mead makes an excellent dinner wine to serve with fowl, fish, or spicey foods. Serve at cellar temperature. This mead cellars well for 10-15 years.
Harvest Melomel
$19.00 – 750ml sweetness code 1, 11% alcohol
Our seasonal mead. This off dry mead is made with 100% Vancouver Island Honey and a blend of berries from our farm. Clean and crisp with a distinct fruity palate, it finishes with a soft whisper of honey. Melomel was the mainstay of ancient agricultural communities, their festivals, and traditions long before the cultivation of grapes and barley. Enjoy this mead with our famous wild BC salmon, cream pastas, fowl, or your favourite cheeses.
Serve at cellar temperature. This mead cellars well for up to 10 years.
Vintage Sac – Sweet Mead
Silver Metal Winner, North West Wine Summit 2010
CAD$26.95 - 375ml
18% alc / vol PH 31 RS 8degrees brix 225cases
Fruit Source- honey and spice, no fruit -barrel fermented and aged in French oak, fortified
This mead is closer in style to the traditional meads that some people have experienced in Europe. It is an exciting new alternative to dessert wines and should be something to talk about at the holiday dinner table this season. Sweet floral honey notes lead into a long finish that is well appreciated alone or with your favourite desserts.
Only in our tasting room and
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12 Year old Acerglyn Maple Mead
$29.95 200ml 19 alc/vol RS 10 16 cases
Gently nutured for the last 12 years in its own oak barrel and fortified with our own distilled spirits, this Mead is the cumulation of Bob’s passion for Mead making.
Complex, delicious, sweet, after dinner aperitif. Ponder history while you sip it!
Coming Soon
Original Sin Cyser Mead 2011
$26.95 750ml 14%alc/vol RS 2 20 cases
Suppose that the Forbidden Fruit of the Garden of Eden was a Quince. This is now believed by many historians. This intense Cyser with Wildflower Honey, tart Cider Apples, and fragrant Quince celebrates this discovery. The result is a natural sparkling Cyser with a subtle brandied finish. This is serious Cyser , we cannot be held responsible for any sins resulting from the consumption of this product. Pairings- chicken saute, BBQ, ripened cheeses.
Tugwell Creek Farm We specialize in high quality products from our own beehives located around the Sooke area.
From our Survey Mountain apiary the bees have harvested Wildflower honey. This honey is comprised of Salal (Gaultheria Shallon), Fireweed (Epilobium Angustifolium) and Hawksbeard (Crepis Capillaris). The nectars are derived from an assortment of other sub alpine blossoms found high in the mountains above the West Coast of Vancouver Island.
Sooke River Pot Holes is known by many locals for its superb Blackberry (Rubus Discolour) crops. We put our bees there to obtain the nectar from them and later in the summer from the abundant Canada Thistle (Cirsium Arvense). A truly tasty combination.
Honey Comb
Due to popular demand we are proud to announce a limited amount of fresh honey in the wax comb and chunk honeycomb in bottled honey. Don’t miss this old-fashioned favourite of young and old alike. Available in October in limited quantities.
Beeswax
Our purest of beeswax comes from the wax cappings of the honeycomb in the hives. This is the last wax laid down by the bees making it the highest quality. It has a beautiful smell and colour and is available in 50gram bars.
Mohair Wool
Our two Angora goats, Jenny and Tess are shorn i-annually. our happy lawn mowers supply warm, soft angora. Popular for knitting, doll making (hair), and felting.
Mohair/Border Leicester Blend
Colour :Natural, undyed
2 ply yarn
100 Yard skeins
$12.00/100g
Mohair/Romney Blend
Colour :Natural, undyed
2 ply yarn
100 yard skeins
$11.00/100g
Mohair Rovings …………..$5.00/100g
Mohair Locks………………$4.00/100g
