Thursday, December 13
(from left) Kauai vanilla beans, mountain apple, ginger and cacao beans. Daniel Lane photo
The Fourth Annual Holiday Tasting at Nani Moon Mead allows you to celebrate the season with a tasting of the Nani Moon Mead collection, and enjoy pupus especially paired to the honey wine. Gift baskets, gift wrapped bottles and wine shippers will be available.
Pupu and Paring menu includes: Continue Reading →
Margarita made with Winter Sun Mead. Daniel Lane photo
Guests on our Kauai culinary tour got to know local mead maker, Stephanie Krieger. As the owner of Nani Moon Mead, she closed the shop, and gave us an exclusive tour and tasting. She also had a little surprise for us all, and taught us how to make a cocktail with her Winter Sun Mead—a margarita no less. She gave everyone the recipe, and I’m sharing it here with you. This is one tasty margarita, but be careful, it goes down really easy! Continue Reading →
Stephanie Krieger of Nani Moon Mead. Daniel Lane photo
“Last January, one of my chief honey suppliers said they weren’t going to wholesale to me any more,” says Stephanie Krieger, the president and creative life force behind Nani Moon Mead. “Our honey demands are 30 to 40 gallons a month, and this was out of the blue. I took a walk and realized I needed to start focusing on hive acquisition.”
Mead, a wine made by fermenting honey and water, has been traced to 7000 BC in Northern China, and was a part of the rituals of the Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. The word honeymoon is derived from the practice of newlyweds drinking mead for one month (a moon) after the wedding to promote fertility and prosperity. Continue Reading →
