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Starrlight Mead

Meadery in Pittsboro, North Carolina

4.8★ 187 Google reviews 4th most reviewed of 15 in North Carolina

Call it mead or honey wine. At Starrlight Mead, we invite you to discover your new favorite drink. Refined, refreshing, and far from the sticky sweet you might expect, our award-winning meads will open up a whole new category for you. Let us introduce you to honey wine varieties as engaging, diverse, and exceptional as you would find in the world of traditional wine made from grapes. Join us at our winery in Pittsboro, NC for a tasting, behind-the-scenes tour, or class on how to make your own mead. Save the date with friends for special events, like our renaissance fair “Mead Day” celebration. Become a member of our Mead Club and pick up a bottle or two or stop by to share a glass by the fireplace.

Hours

Mon 12pm – 6pm
Tue 12pm – 6pm
Wed 12pm – 6pm
Thu 12pm – 6pm
Fri 12pm – 7pm
Sat 12pm – 7pm
Sun 1pm – 5pm

Hours come from public listing data and can change. Call ahead before travelling.

Nearest meaderies

4 other meaderies within 50 miles of Starrlight Mead.

Distances are straight line from the listed addresses, not driving distance.

New to mead?

What Is a Meadery?

A meadery is a place that makes mead, which is wine made from honey. Here is what that means in practice, and what you will find if you walk into one.

Is Mead Wine or Beer?

Mead is wine. It ferments from honey rather than grain, and federal law regulates it under the wine rules, even when it is poured in a taproom that feels like a brewery.

Mead Tasting: What to Expect on Your First Meadery Visit

What a mead tasting actually involves: flights, prices, how to order, whether you can tour the production side, and what to check before you drive out.

Types of Mead Explained

Melomel, metheglin, cyser, braggot. The words on a meadery tasting list all mean the same thing: mead, plus whatever went in alongside the honey.

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