Drinking better-made products should apply just as much to nonalcoholic beverages as they do to those featured in this summer’s Raise A Glass column. After all, you deserve to drink better all the time, so consider this sparkling honey water made by one of New Jersey’s most highly awarded craft producers, Melovino Meadery in Vauxhall.
Melle Water is a line of delicious, honey-based drinks that are refreshingly effervescent, and with an emphasis on being only lightly sweetened. Photo courtesy of Melovino Meadery
Sergio Moutela, the founder and mead maker at Melovino, realized that water alone was not cutting it for his hydration needs at work. With an abundance of premium honey all around him, he started mixing it in with water — not just to flavor it, but to benefit from the natural nutrients found in raw honey.
A few years later, when he wanted to offer a nonalcoholic option for visitors to the Melovino Mead Bar, he decided to put his sparkling honey water concoction on tap. Fast forward to a year ago, while brainstorming on how to adapt to the uncertain business future brought on by the pandemic, Moutela decided to take his plans off the back burner and can the product he named Melle Water, after his goddaughter Amelia.
Melle Water is not really all that complicated ingredients-wise. It is made from just honey and water. What is complex are the unique flavor profiles that the different premium honeys used can create. Moutela has done a great job extracting these flavors that reside in high-quality honey, creating a line of delicious drinks that are refreshingly effervescent, and with an emphasis on being only lightly sweetened.
Photo courtesy of Melovino Meadery
The four offerings are made from honey of different origins: Acacia Blossom from Brazil; Raspberry Blossom from the northeastern United States; Blackberry Mallow, a blend of blackberry blossom and meadowfoam honey from the Northwest; and Orange Blossom from Mexico. All are caffeine, gluten, alcohol and additive free and non-GMO sourced. Keeping it simple never tasted so good. Or, as its slogan goes, “let honey bee thy flavor.”
Cost: $12-$14, four-pack of 12-ounce cans; visit drinkmelle.com to purchase.
Hank Zona writes regularly about wine, spirits and a range of other topics such as food and culture. He also has been running wine and spirits events of all sorts for over a decade.
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of Jersey’s Best. Subscribe here for in-depth access to everything that makes the Garden State great.
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