What can we say about Love Potion Number D, other than we love it? A true labor of love, we started by hand-picking organic raspberries at Champlain Orchards in Shoreham, VT, then blended them into a fragrant brew of one of our favorite Yunnan black teas, sourced as always by Middlebury’s inimitable Stone Leaf Teahouse. Fermented dry with our house native* yeast strain, this mead simply overflows with fruit character, ferried liltingly over soft and richly balanced tannin and 8% ABV. Okay, maybe we’re overflowing a bit ourselves, but a sip or two might just have you doing the same…

*We propagated our unique house yeast strain from a wild-fermented cider pressed from apples at Champlain Orchards in Shoreham, VT. Since we’ve been propagating it in-house, we don’t think we can really call it ‘wild’ anymore, but it’s as much a Vermont native as anything could be.