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Keeping it local
Welcome to Sweetgale Meadworks & Cider House, the tap room of Sweetgale Wines, a craft winery located on Main Street in scenic Homer, Alaska.
In crafting small-batch berry wines, meads and ciders, Sweetgale Wines has one overarching goal: to showcase the aromas and flavors of Alaska’s fruit, berries and honey using locally produced inputs. It is by working closely with local farmers, foragers and beekeepers to procure the finest ingredients that this becomes possible — and in fact even the yeasts used for the wild fermentation process are local, having been selected and cultivated over the years from varieties that occur naturally right here in Homer.
In side-by-side fermentations conducted pre-opening in 2018, these local yeasts clearly outperformed the best industrially-produced yeasts from France when it came to expressing the purest fruit and berry notes in our meads. In February 2022 the Sweetgales Wines Alpine Blueberry mead won Best of Show, out of 92 entries from 18 states, at the Texas Mead Cup.
The meads created by Sweetgale Wines contain nothing but local honey, fruit and water. Natural wines like these, made without the addition of sulfites, sorbates or other preservatives used in conventional wines, are living products that should be opened with care as there is always a chance they could develop natural effervescence. With caps rather than corks, these champagne-rated wine bottles are safe for transport and will remain sealed even when stored for long periods of time.
