Enlightenment Wines "Night Eyes" Sparkling Botanical Apple-Cherry-Sumac-Rosehips Mead

If the meads made by Enlightenment Wines Meadery were a song catalogue, Night Eyes would be the pop hit—with some funk in the trunk. This frizzante, pet-nat style mead has a light bubble and fragrant up front, followed by intricate flavors of wild-fermented yeast and foraged herbs.

Night Eyes is made from New York State honey, cherries, and apples, which are fermented together for six months before being infused with hand-picked sumac and rose hips. After aging for another six months in wood barrels, this bone-dry mead goes through a second bottle fermentation that produces its lively effervescence.