Chaucer's Pomegranate Mead
Chaucer's Pomegranate Mead is a California dessert-style honey wine from Bargetto Winery's Chaucer's Cellars line: fresh honey fermented into mead and blended with pure pomegranate — 11% ABV, 750mL, not fortified, not sweetened — available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA.
Bargetto Winery of Soquel, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, has been making specialty dessert wines since the winery's early days, and Chaucer's Cellars is its honey-wine line: real honey (alfalfa, orange blossom, sage, and mountain wildflower from Northern California beekeepers) fermented with no artificial flavorings, concentrates, or colorings. For the Pomegranate expression, the honey base meets pomegranates grown in the dry southern San Joaquin Valley, delicately pressed without macerating the rinds or seeds — a brilliant, ruby-red wine with a silky, elegant flavor profile.
Tasting notes (per Bargetto's winemaker notes): a bouquet of pure pomegranate; silky elegance on the palate punctuated by a spunky, acidic backbone — slight tartness giving just enough contrast to the fruit's sweetness. Residual sugar 9.5%, total acidity 1.84 — rich like a fine liqueur, but naturally fermented and only 11% alcohol.
Why buy this mead? Because it is one of the most versatile dessert wines on the shelf — fantastic chilled, paired with spicy food, or mixed into cocktails — and one of the oldest honey-wine traditions in California winemaking. Browse the Bargetto Winery brand collection, more dessert wines, and other fine wines.
Serving note: serve chilled in a dessert-wine glass; decant if sediment has formed — the pomegranate wine is a 100% natural fruit product and may throw harmless sediment. Pairs with spicy Thai food, spicy Southwest cuisine, spicy curry, salads, dried fruits and nuts, and soft cheeses.
What is Chaucer's Pomegranate Mead? A California dessert-style honey wine (mead) made by Bargetto Winery — fresh honey fermented and blended with pure pomegranate. 11% ABV, 750mL, not fortified.
Who makes Chaucer's mead? Bargetto Winery of Soquel, California (Santa Cruz Mountains), via its Chaucer's Cellars line — the winery's vendor tag on this listing is Bargetto Winery.
How should I serve pomegranate mead? Chilled, in a dessert-wine glass; decant if there's sediment. It also works as a cocktail base — Bargetto publishes pomegranate drink recipes and suggests spicy food and soft-cheese pairings.