If kiwi fruit are on sale at your local grocer, you might want to give this a try. A kiwi melomel, or perhaps more descriptively, a fruit mead.

This is my first melomel of the year with part of the 90 pounds of honey I recently had delivered. Of course, I’ll be making even more melomels and meads with the honey, and hopefully will have time in the next week or so to get them started.

A couple of other notes – I meant to write about two Christmas gifts that I received. My business partner, Wendy, is awesome at finding unique and great presents and this year was no exception. She knows I love to read, and the first gift was the book, “The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pino Noir”. I’m looking forward to reading this book which was short listed for the Canadian Governor General’s award, as well as nominated for the James Beard Book award. I’ll provide a review when I’m finished reading it.

The other gift from Wendy was exquisite. Somehow, she managed to find a dozen hand-blown (mouth blown? I don’t know the proper term) glass airlocks, each about 6″ high. Apparently at least 40 years old, these airlocks are really nice, and I’m looking forward to using them. Of course, I’ll be using them with carboys that are mostly out of reach when long term ageing is desired, so there is little risk of breaking them. What a great Christmas present!

A few more sips of my wine, and I’m off to bed.

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