Hard-won.
Mountain-made.
An Appalachian estate meadery, worked by hand in the Great Smoky Mountains. Sourwood honey, cold spring water, patient wood.
Every Ironwood estate has its Warden.
★ Every Ironwood estate has its Warden. ★
Barrel-Aged · Wax-Sealed · Allocation Only
The Estate
A working
homeplace.
Forty acres above the fog line. A barn we patched ourselves, hives we split in April, and a spring that has never once been in a hurry.
The honey is all ours — sourwood in July, wildflower the rest of the summer, whatever the ridge decides to bloom. We ferment slow, oak-age slower, and don't dress the bottle up more than it deserves.
This is the bourbon drinker's mead: honest, dry, and built for a long evening. No legend-talk. Just what the mountain gave us and what we did with it.
— The Ironwood Homeplace, Sevierville TN
The Range
The House & Its Crown
Ironwood is the working line — poured on porches, opened on Sundays. At the center stands The Warden, wax-sealed and barrel-aged, the reserve we set aside for the long dark.
The Meads
Three tiers.
One ridge.
Reserve for the long evening. Meadowlight for the morning after. Melomels for what the season gives up.
Ironwood Reserve
Still. Oak-kept. Built to last the evening.
The Warden
15.4% ABVBarrel-aged flagship. Wax-sealed. Poured in short chapters.
Read the legend →The Long Hunter
14.2% ABVToasted oak, sourwood honey, dried fig, a long dark finish.
Ridgekeeper
13.8% ABVBeeswax, black tea, walnut hull, cellar stone.
Old Iron
14.6% ABVMolasses, char, orange peel, iron on the tongue.
Meadowlight
Sparkling. Pale. Bone-dry.
Meadowlight
7.4% ABVClover honey, green apple, chalk, fine bead.
First Bloom
7.0% ABVPear skin, lemon blossom, cold spring water.
Sunday Bright
6.8% ABVChamomile, white peach, a clean bright finish.
Estate Melomels
Fruited. Wild. In season only.
Blackberry Winter
12.4% ABVBramble, dark honey, cold-morning air.
Elder's Reach
12.9% ABVElderberry, plum skin, cedar, earth.
★ The Flagship
The Warden.
Every Ironwood estate has its Warden.
A single barrel is set aside each fall and left in the dark of the cellar the mountain gave us. It waits through two winters without a word from anyone.
What comes out is not the Reserve. It's slower, deeper, kept — charred oak and dark honey and a low iron note like a bell rung a long way off. We seal it in gold and send it out sworn to secrecy.
"They say a warden walks the ridge. We can't swear to that. We can swear to this bottle."
Ironwood Reserve
Dark.
Heavy.
Slow.
Oak-kept and poured in a heavy glass. Built for the hour the fire settles and the porch goes quiet.
Meadowlight
Pale.
Bright.
Dry.
Sparkling and clean. Poured cold with the windows open and the morning still deciding what it wants to be.
Find Us
Come up
the ridge.
Tasting Room
1287 Ironwood Ridge Road
Sevierville, Tennessee 37862
Open
Thursday – Sunday
Noon until sundown
By the Bottle
Kept at select shops and pours across East Tennessee and the Blue Ridge. Ask for us by name.
The Ledger
A short note, now and then.
Barrel releases, harvest notes, and word when the tasting room stays open late. Nothing more than that.
No noise. No spam.