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| | Wine Spectator | Articles | Irish Winery Spurs Mead Revival |
 | | That's right, mead, a honey wine that can range from very sweet to fairly dry, and whose flavors cover a surprisingly wide spectrum, from saccharine to herbaceous to, in more unappealing cases, cough-syrupy. |
 | | For centuries, mead functioned as a harbinger of fertility -- legend has it that the word "honeymoon" derives from the ancient custom of giving newlyweds enough mead to last a month -- but in medieval Ireland, mead, mythology, and religion became almost mystically intertwined. |
 | | "Mead is more than something to pour in a tankard when you're playing Renaissance man," he says, referring to the Renaissance Fair enthusiasts who are mead's main consumers. |
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