The following is a short interview we did with Cassidy Gertis from Midgard Winery about their honey wine. Enjoy!

Video Transcript on Honey Wine

Tim Delaney, Elma Wine & Liquor: Hi, I’m here today with Cassidy from Midgard Winery, showcasing some of their wines that are made out of honey. They do have other wines as well, but their specialty as bee farmers is honey wine.

Cassidy, why don’t you run us through your five wines you have here.

Cassidy Gertis, Midgard Winery: Yeah, of course.

So we’ve actually been a commercial bee farm for over 40 years, and thought why not turn the honey into something we can drink as well.

So it’s not considered a mead precisely. A mead is straight up honey and water. What we do is we actually mix it with fresh pressed apple juice from Lockport, and it’s considered a sizer.

So we have a sweet, a dry, and a hot pepper infused honey apple wine all using our raw honey. We use different varieties like our wild flower, orange blossom honey, and then we mix it with the fresh pressed apples. The hot pepper actually, we grow seven out of 10 of the world’s hottest peppers ourselves. We dice them up infuse it into a very large batch. So it just gives it that little burn.

We also have two fruit wines. We have 100% New York State blueberry wine and a 100% New York State blended rosé. That uses three native New York State grapes, both are balanced to come off a little drier than what they actually are. So a lot of people that like the drier reds or anything like that actually do like our blueberry and our Alliance as well.

Tim: So the mead, in order to be considered mead then, what you’re saying that it wouldn’t be blended with apple.

Cassidy: Correct.

Tim: People that know mead and have had mead before, that’s without the apple but they blend with apple which I think gives it great flavor.

Cassidy: Yes, we like to dilute it down with a little, more of a sweetness. Pure honey water, if anyone has ever had mead, it’s very, very strong. So we kind of dilute it down with that apple juice. A lot of our wines are stronger in the alcohol content as well, kinda like a mead ranking at about 14% for your alcohol content.

Tim: Great.

Okay, thank you very much. And thank you for being here.

Cassidy: Yes, thank you.

Tim: And we always have all of their wines in stock here at Elma Wine & Liquor.

The Products

You can purchase any of Midgard’s wines at the following links:

Honey Apple Wine, Nordic Fire (hot pepper infused!), Blueberry, & Alliance.

Thanks for watching and reading. We look forward to hearing from you soon.