Aurum Modern Honey Mead

Pauillac-born Louis Costa spent years in Bordeaux châteaux and at Vasse Felix before settling in Byron Bay and turning his attention to honey. His meads — a blanc de blanc style, a dry sauvignon blanc-like still, a pinot-adjacent red melomel, and a blush sparkling rosé called Rose Gold — are fermented dry from Australian varietal honeys, deliberately far from anything medieval or sweet.