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Redstone Meadery® Receives 6 Medals At 2006 International Mead Festival

2002 Reserve and Sunshine Nectar Both Win The Gold!

BOULDER, COLORADO - Redstone Meadery, a winery that makes honey wine known as mead, was awarded six medals in four different categories at the 2006 International Mead Festival – Honey Wines of the World. The mead festival hosts the largest competition and tasting for commercial meads by the most experienced mead judges ever assembled.

David Myers, Chairman of the Mead at Redstone Meadery states, “We are extremely proud to have received medals in as many categories as we did. With close to 100 commercial meads entered the competition is getting tougher and tougher each year. We are especially excited about winning the gold for our 2002 Reserve and also the gold for our Sunshine Nectar.”

Redstone Meadery’s six medals include: 1) Gold for Sunshine Nectar in the ‘Session’ category; 2) Gold for the 2002 Red Raspberry Reserve in the ‘Dessert’ category; 3) Silver for the Juniper Mountain Honey Wine in the ‘Metheglin’ category; 4) Silver for Black Raspberry Nectar in the ‘Session’ category; 5) Silver for Pinot Noir Mountain Honey Wine in the ‘Pyment’ category; and 6) Bronze for the White Pyment in the ‘Pyment’ category.

This 4th ever competition, run by Marie Bird Struckman of the Great American Beer Festival, judges each mead based on a 100 point system. One gold, silver and bronze medal was awarded to the top three scoring meads in each category. This type of judging is a combination of how both commercial beer and commercial wines are judged in other competitions.

Vicky Rowe, mead judge and owner of the web site GotMead.com stated, "The quality of meads judged was phenomenal. Only one gold, silver and bronze was awarded in each category. So to win a gold medal means the mead is considered the best commercial example of that style in the world.”

A total of 96 commercial meads from six different countries were judged in ten different categories that included: Braggot – honeywine with malt; Cyser - Honeywine made with apple cider, apple juice or apples; Dessert Mead - honeywine 14% alcohol or over; Melomel - honeywine using fruit excluding apples or grapes; Metheglin - honeywine made with any herbs, spices; Pyment - honeywine made with grapes/grape juice; Session - honeywine 10% alcohol or below; Specialty - Any Honeywine (fermented from at least 50% honey) that does not fit into any other category, including a combination of two or more categories Traditional - honeywine not from a single variety of honey; Varietal - honeywine made from single-bloom or varietal honey.

Redstone Meadery, which opened in 2001, sells ten different types of mead and is distributed in over 16 states. The meadery, located in Boulder, Colorado, has a tasting room attached to the production facility and offers free tours and tastings Monday through Saturday.

Web site: http://www.meadfest.com. For further information please contact Julia Herz of Honeywine.com, +1-303-823-6691, info@honeywine.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: David Myers/Julia Herz are available for interviews. Photos are available. Coverage Invited.