Mead Wine and Honey Tasting Experience

Enjoy a mead and honey experience at the Hunter Valley's only meadery



50 mins

Experience size 1 to 14 (public dates), 4 to 20
  $32

Welcome to a truly unique cellar door experience in the Hunter Valley. Step away from the vine and into the captivating world of mead—the ancient ‘Nectar of the Gods’—handcrafted right here in Broke, NSW.
$20 of your ticket price is given as store credit towards mead purchases (not redeemable for honey purchases). Most mead bottles are $40 for 1 and $35 for 2+.
You will be guided through this unique tasting by the owner and mead maker, learning about the history, ingredients, and fermentation techniques that make mead distinct from wine.
Mead Tasting (Complimentary): Choose 6 unique mead flavours to sample (30ml shots) from our imaginative menu, including: Traditional, Mana Potion, Health Potion, Potion of Invisibility, and many more.
Honey Tasting (Complimentary): Sample a variety of local honey, including raw honey, vanilla bean honey, creamed honey, and our famous chilli honey sauce.
The experience usually lasts 45-60 minutes or longer if larger groups

Please note: Public dates for this experience require at least 2 guests to run. In the unlikely event that we don't reach this number, we may cancel the session; if that happens, we'll inform you and let you choose between a refund or reschedule, so please watch your email/SMS one day prior to the experience.

Upcoming dates for Mead Wine and Honey Tasting Experience

Times are Sydney time. Dates and prices as of 6 Oct 2026, 1:30am; availability and price are confirmed live when booking on this page.

78 upcoming dates between 9 Oct 2026 and 27 Mar 2027.

  • Fri 9 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 10 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 10 Oct 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 11 Oct 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 16 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 17 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 17 Oct 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 18 Oct 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 23 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 24 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 24 Oct 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 25 Oct 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Sat 31 Oct 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 31 Oct 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 1 Nov 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 6 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 7 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 7 Nov 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 8 Nov 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 13 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 14 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 14 Nov 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 15 Nov 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 20 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 21 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 21 Nov 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 22 Nov 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 27 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 28 Nov 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 28 Nov 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 29 Nov 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 4 Dec 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 5 Dec 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 6 Dec 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 11 Dec 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 12 Dec 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 13 Dec 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 18 Dec 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 19 Dec 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 20 Dec 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 25 Dec 2026, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 26 Dec 2026, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 27 Dec 2026, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 1 Jan 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 2 Jan 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 3 Jan 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 8 Jan 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 9 Jan 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 10 Jan 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 15 Jan 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 16 Jan 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 17 Jan 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 22 Jan 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 23 Jan 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 24 Jan 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 29 Jan 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 30 Jan 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 31 Jan 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 5 Feb 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 6 Feb 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 7 Feb 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 12 Feb 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 13 Feb 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 14 Feb 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 19 Feb 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 20 Feb 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 21 Feb 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 26 Feb 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 27 Feb 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Sun 28 Feb 2027, 4pm-4:50pm
  • Fri 5 Mar 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 6 Mar 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Fri 12 Mar 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 13 Mar 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Fri 19 Mar 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 20 Mar 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
  • Fri 26 Mar 2027, 11:30am-12:20pm
  • Sat 27 Mar 2027, 2pm-2:50pm
What you'll get
Mead samples, honey samples and $20 store credit
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Knowledge required
Perfect for beginners and honey enthusiasts!
What to bring
Just yourself!
Location

Honey Wines Australia Meadery - 72 Wollombi Street, Broke NSW

Ensure you put Wollombi Street BROKE into your gps as there is a Wollombi Rd in Cessnock.

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Recent reviews of Mead Wine and Honey Tasting Experience

  • 5/5 from Gina White, attended Nov 2025: Martin was delightful, knowledgeable and the mead was delicious! We had a fabulous time tasting the meads and we loved the honey as well!
  • 5/5 from Melody Murley, attended May 2025: What an excellent experience. Well worth it. Definitely recommend this!
  • 5/5 from William Hewitt, attended Apr 2025: 10/10 mead tasting and honey. Great flavours. Great variety. I'm a mead maker myself and it was real good stuff.
  • 5/5 from Tyran Harrison, attended Apr 2025: Mead. Hell Yeah!!!
  • 5/5 from Davy Hu, attended Apr 2025: Martin was amazing, he is super friendly and knowledgeable about honey and mead. You can tell he is very passionate about what he does. We had a really good time chatting and trying the different flavours. Love the honey and would be recommending this place to our friends.
  • 5/5 from Karolina Corsham, attended Mar 2025: What a great experience. Really nice to meet someone that just loves what they do, good at conversation and also makes great Mead. Can’t wait to taste that caramel one you are developing. Thanks for a great afternoon.
  • 5/5 from Mike Rowekamp, attended Mar 2025: Mead experience was awesome…..owner spent time explaining the process and answering all our questions. Mead samples were delicious
  • 4/5 from Andrew James Grose, attended Mar 2025: Great customer service. Horn drinking recepticles very reasonablely priced. Love the way you sought product feedback. Great work.
  • 5/5 from Susan Bunt, attended Feb 2025: My husband & I were celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary. We had our best friends with us. It was very interesting and informative to listen to Martin explain how the Mead was made. I loved that we could choose the 6 flavours we would like to taste. The honey also was delicious. Purchases were made. Thank You Martin for a wonderful experience. Sue.
  • 5/5 from Conrad Lategan, attended Jan 2025: What an awesome experience. Martin was an amazing host that makes an incredible mead. Great set up allowing for good intimate discussions about all things mead. (Plus he has the most beautiful cats) Thanks Martin
  • 5/5 from Isabel Padilla, attended Jan 2025: My partner and I had a terrific time! Martin was a great host and was very knowledgeable. We got the mana potion (mixed fruit mead) and the original mead for home afterwards. His cinnamon honey and vanilla honey were fantastic. I definitely recommend this if you want to have a chill time with someone
  • 5/5 from Elaine McNamara, attended Jan 2025: We had a wonderful afternoon enjoying tasting 6 different flavoured meads, which were delicious. Martin was very knowledgeable & informative & made it a fun time for all. My favourite is the Chilli & cherry.
  • 5/5 from Miranda Stokes, attended Jan 2025: The tasting was very fun, mead was amazing. We would definitely come back and buy from here again.
  • 5/5 from Javier Antonio Lopez, attended Dec 2024: it was a great experience, the different tasted meads were very good, martin was very kind in answering my questions!
  • 4/5 from Michelle Thoemmes, attended Dec 2024: We had a great time doing a mead and honey tasting with Martin! He is super knowledgeable, explains a lot about the brewing process, the different flavors and bee keeping. The mead is delicious and it's a nice add-on that you can choose a bottle to take home. Definitely recommend, great experience in the Hunter Valley!
  • 5/5 from Laura Synott, attended Nov 2024: Lots of cool and unique flavours and coloured meads! The owner is super knowledgeable and passionate, keen to teach us about the art of mead making and its origin. We enjoyed the ambiance of the beautiful Hunter Valley backdrop and Skyrim music!
  • 5/5 from Matthew Winters, attended Nov 2024: Enjoyable and informative tasting experience. Great variety of flavors to try and Martin was happy to answer all questions about bees, hives and the whole process
  • 5/5 from Anonymised ClassBento customer, attended Nov 2024: Had a group of 8 people who all thoroughly enjoyed our tasting, and we were delighted by the kindness and value of the time we had.
  • 5/5 from Anonymised ClassBento customer, attended Nov 2024: Had fun, learned a little. Was a fantabulous experience. Bought heaps too.
  • 5/5 from Scott Riordan, attended Nov 2024: An absolute must-do. Martin is very knowledgeable and passionate about his mead, honey, and importantly, his bees. A very informative and relaxed tasting session with a wide range of different mead flavours. A very friendly and personable host. It is well worth it.
  • 5/5 from Paige Grenfell, attended Nov 2024: Such a fun experience, kind and interesting guide sharing experience and technique. Highly recommend! Worth a stop
  • 5/5 from Filip Tarjanyi, attended Nov 2024: Great experience, great mead, friendly service. Recommend anyone to try it out!! The Cherry and Chilli mead is
  • 4/5 from Vicky Rendell-Goodhew, attended Nov 2024: Place looked a bit dodgy to begin with but then others arrived. Tasting includes 6 flavours in good size shots so we chose a varied mix between the two of us to include all the flavours we wanted to try. Husband only liked the liquers, not a wine drinker so was expected. Interesting information on meade but was disapointed because I thought it was a tour and included being shown the processing and creating of meade. You get a bottle of your choice to take home which makes it value for money. Happy we had the experience.
  • 5/5 from Débora Santos, attended Oct 2024: Martin is a wonderful host, and the Mead is great! We bought the spiced honey and enjoyed it with a rump cap the perfect combination. We highly recommend the visit.
  • 5/5 from Tania Cordtz, attended Oct 2024: Very good mead, fantastic experience, would go back as really enjoyed and the host had knowledge
  • 5/5 from Damian Plumb, attended Oct 2024: Martin is a great host who explains the history and process well. The variety of Meads and honey are excellent. The overall package is great value for money and worth the effort if you’re in the area.
  • 5/5 from Breeze Morrison, attended Oct 2024: Fantastic experience! Martin was a wealth of knowledge and fantastic host. Definitely will be back!
  • 5/5 from Helen Wong, attended Oct 2024: Mead is rather an uncommon find so we knew we had to go as we were in the area for our anniversary. Definitely worth it! Martin is incredibly down to earth and was very accommodating to us as one of us couldn’t drink alcohol. He really went above and beyond for us. Thank you again!
  • 5/5 from Mirachael Anne Racela, attended Oct 2024: Martin was really welcoming and helpful. He explained the processes he takes to make his mead which was super insightful. The mead was also delicious!
  • 5/5 from Nicola Smith, attended Oct 2024: Was really interesting and learnt a lot. Very informative and interactive. The honey was also delicious and really cool Viking merchandise.
  • 4/5 from Morgan Katsch, attended Oct 2024: Group Mead tasting in the Hunter Valley. Mitch was fantastic! It is clear that he loves his craft and enjoys sharing it with anyone who will join in on a story from the past. The venue was really lovely. Great outdoor seating and can accommodate multiple people or groups. We tried 6 different Meads Mitch had recently made and tasted 4 different honeys cultivated in the back bee yards. The entire experience was great value for money, Mitch even sends you home with a bottle of Mead! Our group really enjoyed learning about the process of making mead and the rich history of tasting one of the oldest fermented drinks known to man. If you are in the Broke area, certainly give HoneyWines a try and book a tasting.
  • 5/5 from Jillian Jenkins, attended Sep 2024: An easy going informative session at Honey Wines with family. Our host, Martin was friendly and very knowledgeable (of course!). We tasted our choice of the many Meads on offer and then the delicious honeys. We went home with a bag full of mead and honey and it was a great alternative experience to the many conventional wineries (much as we love them too) in the region. Highly recommend a visit.
  • 5/5 from Yao Chen, attended Sep 2024: Martin was lovely and good to talk to, the mead was great and there was a wide selection
  • 4/5 from Lance Oswald, attended Sep 2024: A good visit, some learnings and yummy tastings! A nice way to spend some time.
  • 4/5 from Elham Jalilzadeh, attended Sep 2024: Came at the request of the birthday person. Martin put us all at ease and shared interesting information about honey, mead, etc.
  • 5/5 from Wasifa Chowdhury, attended Aug 2024: First time tasting mead and it did not disappoint. Beautiful wines in the most picturesque setting. An absolute must try in the Hunter!
  • 5/5 from Krista Harrison, attended Aug 2024: Peaceful atmosphere Friendly host Beautiful mead and honey Reasonably priced Gorgeous gnomes for the kids
  • 5/5 from Michael Hickey, attended Aug 2024: We were on a boys weekend; Martin was a good host and very informative and it was great value.
  • 5/5 from Ben Reid, attended Jul 2024: Wanted to find some variety on our hunter Valley trip and the meadery was a great point of differnce to the cellar doors we had been to. Martin has a lot of passion for his craft. Tip! - leave plenty of time - you will get lot os information if you are interested in how mead is made. There was a surprising amount of variety in the Mead and there was also some fun/nerdy labelling showing some of the mead as "potions", reminding of my dungeons and dragons memories. We came away with many bottles after this experience, run out of a garage on a private property in Broke.
  • 5/5 from Danielle Sciortino, attended Jul 2024: It was really nice to try something different and other than wine in the Hunter Region. The meads were really good and interesting flavours. not as sweet as i was expecting them to be. Our host was really lovely too and it was nice to relax and chat for a bit. would recommend you stop by and give this place a try for something a bit different.
  • 5/5 from Melanie French, attended Jul 2024: Martin was a super host, loved every minute. Products are superb. Please go and taste his divine mead and honey.
  • 5/5 from Melanie McLeod, attended Jul 2024: We went for a mead tasting and between us got to try 12 different kinds on offer! Our host was friendly and knowledge, treating us to trivia on the mead making history and process and the bee keeping and honey gathering process. The meads were all distinct and flavourful, we ended up with 3 different bottles! All around great atmosphere and experience, would definitely recommend! Mel & Tim
  • 5/5 from Allan Brown, attended Jun 2024: Great way to spend an afternoon. Martin is a great character. The mead and honey are delicious. The tasting is very affordable, and with no pressure to buy afterwards. Not that that is a problem, because it tastes good enough you'll want to take some home anyway. I've been there twice, but lineup does change so I'll no doubt be back.
  • 5/5 from Kevin Annis, attended Jun 2024: Good value for money Martin explains the complete process, very passionate about his honey wine creations. Tasting the different honey wines was very good. We were staying at his Air B&B Attending a wedding in Broke Great friendly host
  • 5/5 from Victoria Gassner, attended Jun 2024: Great to learn about the mead making techniques and unique flavours! Thanks Martin, a great experience.
  • 5/5 from Graeme Buckie, attended Jun 2024: Was very interested in buying a few bottles, but decided to pop in for a tasting first and very glad I did. Excellent experience, good conversation, great meads. And the one I was very keen to order was not a taste that was for me in the end, but I definitely found several that were.
  • 5/5 from Joanna Agnew, attended Jun 2024: Friendly knowledgeable host, incredible Meads and flavoured honey's, topped off with a cute ginger cat!
  • 5/5 from Caitlin Manoharan, attended Jun 2024: Such a great find - Martin was so friendly and informative and the session was great fun! Definitely recommending to friends :)
  • 5/5 from Jessica Maree, attended Jun 2024: Friendliest staff and great products! Highly recommend for anyone who’s visiting the Hunter Valley.
  • 5/5 from Amy Coles, attended May 2024: Great unique wine tasting experience. Martin was very friendly and knowledgeable - great to be able to try different types of wines! Would highly recommend if you're in the Broke area!
Your host

Martin Jackson
Martin Jackson

4.9 (87)

I am the owner of the only meadery in the Hunter Region - Honey Wines Australia.
We provide mead and honey tastings from our small shop in Broke.
Mead is an alcohol made from honey. Tasting sessions usually go for around an hour.

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