Fruit and mead have gone together since antiquity, as ways to preserve good harvests, to add flavor to mead, and to increase the variety of meads. Melomels, fruit-flavored meads, have their own place right beside their pure-honey siblings. In ‘Beguile,’ we seek to continue the tradition of the Rudamel, or raspberry meads, and we combine the clean, focused style of our traditional mead with the lovely ripe fruitiness of fresh raspberries. The aroma shows just-picked raspberries bursting with juice, which carries over into a palate with whispers of honeyed spice to add complexity. This is the perfect drink for summer afternoons, with fresh salad and a vinaigrette, a slice of cheesecake, or a bowl of summer berries. Have fun experimenting with this as a cocktail mixer, too!