Desi's Wildflower Sparkling Mead, Desi's Raspberry Lover's Sparkling Honey Wine, and Desi and Jack's Blackberry Mead. Once called nectar, ambrosia or honey wine, mead was one of the earliest ...

and a tart-sweet blackberry mead, all three available at wine stores across Long Island (I found them at Post Wines in Syosset) and each falling between 13 and 15.5 percent alcohol. Since honey ...

It wasn't just Wilson ignoring the extreme wind chill warnings, the line for the blackberry mead stretched from the pub's doors on Dewdney Avenue around to corner to 8th Avenue.