Sulfites, Kosher, and Frequently Asked Qs
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Most wineries add sulfites as an easy way to kill wild yeasts on fruit and to keep wine from browning (like sliced apples do) or acquiring unwanted caramel flavors. HoneyRun honey wine is made carefully without these sulfites.
Many people have some sensitivity to sulfites such as headaches from small amounts of wine, especially white wine (Do you get "champagne headaches"? Sparkling wines tend to have two to three times the sulfites as a regular wine!) Some people are severely allergic to sulfites.
HoneyRun Honey Co. has been in the natural foods industry since 1982. We make our honeywines with extra care, not preservatives, so that you can enjoy a more natural wine. When we have our wines lab tested, the results are usually 0 - 2 parts per million sulfites detected (compare that to 90 - 120 parts per million as the standard level added to finished wine or 350 ppm as the legal limit.)
We used to joke about tying a packet of sulfites onto the neck of the bottle like the spiced salt for tequila or the mulling spices for mead; the packet would say, "If you really miss the headache, stir this in."
HoneyRun Honeywine is supervised by the Orthodox Union (OU). Our wine is Kosher Pareve, but not Kosher for Passover. OU recently bought Kosher Overseers of America, our previous Kosher supervision. Until our labels sell through, they will have the half moon K symbol of Kosher Overseers, though our Letter Of Certificate is from OU.
Perhaps you went to a relative's house, tried HoneyRun Honeywine, and found it delicious. Now, you want more. The only catch is, you checked our Retail Store Locator, and the nearest store that carries HoneyRun Honeywine is 30 miles away. Here are the steps to get it on your favorite local shelves so you and your friends can start popping corks.
- Check our Distributor Locator for your state.
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Bring the Distributor's information to the wine buyer in your favorite local co-op, natural food store, or grocery store.
- Help the Buyer by having ready HoneyRun Winery's Contact Info, including the website: www.honeyrun.com, and Product Descriptions.
- (We find this works best if you round up a few honey wine enthusiasts to show you are devout HoneyRun fans.)
- Congratulations! Now the Buyer knows there is demand for HoneyRun Honeywine, and has the resources to get Blackberry, Elderberry, Cranberry, Cherry and Mead on your shelves.
- Call or email us if you have additional questions. Cheers!
Note: Each State has different regulations for wine shipments. If you live in KY, MA, ME, MD, PA, TN, UT, APOs, or outside the USA, unfortunately we have no distributors and no shipping options to your State. Check Wine Institute. org for more information and links to you legislators.
We're making it easy to find our wine locally! Enter your zip code, or city and state, to find nearby natural food stores, liquor stores, co-ops, and other retailers with yummy HoneyRun honeywines. Please note that retailers might not have every variety in stock. Ask the store buyer if you don't see your favorite variety.
Elderberries are a small, light to dark blue fruit that grow in flat clusters. The round elderbush, which can grow to ten feet, is surprisingly common along creeks, riverbeds, and roadsides across North America. Traditional elderberry wine is very popular along the East Coast and the Pacific North West, where the berries grow easily and in abundance.
Both the elderflower and elderberry are used for their nutritional, medicinal, and tasty qualities. The flower can be made into teas, tisanes (herbal tea without tea leaves), and cordial. There is even an elderflower syrup that has been used to make vegan marshmallows. The berry makes a delicious juice (found to be useful in helping relieve flu-like symptoms), jam, and of course, wine.
Many HoneyRun Elderberry honey wine fans will fondly remember parents or grandparents making elderberry wine. HoneyRun hopes to renew the thrill of family memories, and help make new ones.
Some theorists believe that prehistoric humans ended their nomadic ways to settle down and grow crops because wine and beer were too heavy to move from place to place (the root of civilization). Visit GotMead.com for more information.
"Mead - It was the drink of red-bearded Viking and sloe-eyed sorceress. It was already an ancient beverage when Aristotle drank it, already steeped in mythological mystery when Arthur toasted his Knights Templar".-- "Mad About Mead" by Pamela Spence
"Mead is honey wine. It is made when honey is diluted and allowed to ferment. Mead is thought by many to have been the first alcoholic beverage made by man; there are many reasons why this might be true. Ancient men in Europe and Africa had no sugar and relatively few fruits. In fact, the diets of people of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman Empires, evan at their peaks, importance as a sweet, but it was one of the few things from which an alcoholic beverage could be made". -- "Making Mead (Honey Wine) History, Recipes, Methods and Equipment" by Roger A. Morse
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"Among the ancients mead was not merely drunk as a wine, a liquor to refresh and stimulate, and therefore valuable as such, but it was also partaken of as something which in itself had magical and indeed sacred properties. As a result, it comes about that we find mead, its raw material honey, and even the creature which provides it, the bee, all holding high places in the sacred mythologies of olden times. Thus honey was considered a 'giver of life', and the bee was associated with the souls of men, and was a messenger of the gods. Honey was believed to have come down from Heaven as a dew, and was gathered from the flowers by the bees". -- "Brewing Mead - Wassail! In Mazers of Mead" by Robert Gayre
"Of Meade: Mead is mad of honny and water boyled both togyther; yf it be fyred and pure, it preserveth helth; but it is not good for them the whiche have the Ilyache or the Colycke. - Andrew Borde, "The Regyment, or a Dyetary of Helth", 1542" -- "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing Recipes" by Cindy Renfrow
"Mead, as everyone knows, is a pleasant, alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water with yeast. Of all the crafts of mankind, mead-making is almost certainly the oldest. It is likely that mead was made even before the wheel was invented. Cave paintings of primitive stone-age men depict the collection of honey from bee colonies, and any addition of water to this would automatically produce a mixture which could be fermented by wild yeasts. The discovery of alcohol almost certainly occurred in this chance manner, and spread to all parts of the world". -- "Making Mead: Metheglin, Hippocras, Melomel, Pyment, Cyser" by Bryan Acton and Peter Duncan
Honey Run Winery has a small sales room, and samples. We currently are not offering tours or extra products, but we do simple tastings, and are more than happy to answer questions. Please call ahead or email to check our availability. We are are here most weekdays from 9-3:30, and sometimes later.
After 20 years of selling a wonderful natural gooey sweet product to wonderful customers, Honey Run no longer sells honey. We hope you will find other sources of natural, tasty honey.
1. The biggest change is that credit cards will be verified and charged when you place orders. Please double check your information for accuracy.
2. Shipping tags are generated straight from your information. Please include all Suite/Apt numbers!! Email or call us right away if you need to make address changes. Check our Shipping Policy for more info.
3. Currently this site is running on both www.honeyrun.com and www.honeyrunwinery.com. Clicking on some of the links will take you to the www.honeyrunwinery.com addresses. They are both secure, operate identically, and are directed to us.
- Here are some of the things that happy customers are telling us about HoneyRun Winery:
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“My mom and dad made Elderberry wine at home in the 1940s. I'm glad I found someone sane enough to make practical and sensible wine. Yippee!!!”
“I really enjoyed the Blackberry wine. It was very fruity. I will be ordering more in the future.”
“Thank you for offering an alternative in wine for those of us sulfite-sensitive folks who miss our wine! I'm looking forward to opening my first bottle of wine, without fear, in many years.”
"Very tasty Mead you have here, my friends. I will most certainly be a returning Customer...Cheers!"
“Quite excited to try these out! Not a huge grape wine fan! Thanks!”
“We tried some of your Cherry (purchased from Tom's Farm last month) and it was delicious! What a difference in a honey wine vs. flavored grape wines. We're looking forward to trying the other varieties.”
“Hi. I wanted to say your fruit meads are really good and crisp. I think the one I am ordering now will be awesome!”
“Responded to my email promptly, no problems.”
“The delivery arrived quickly, and was packaged very securely. Plus, the Cranberry Honeywine is absolutely delicious!”
“Very fast turnaround time from when I placed my order to when I received my package. The wine is as good as advertised! I will order again, and have passed the link on to friends and family.”
“The process was very quick and easy. The product arrived professionally packed and secure to ensure un-damaged product. I look forward to future business with them. While visiting a friend in Sacramento, I tried your Blackberry Honeywine and thought it was fantastic. Thank you.”
“I got you one of the Elderberry wines and I am going to try the Blackberry. I already know the Elderberry wine is great. That is why I am getting two bottles!!”