Is Bunratty Meade real Mead?

Question

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bunratty-irish-mead/27380/. I see it's made with white wine and honey, I thought real mead, wasn't made with any wine, just honey, and fermented water and sometimes another ingredient, like herbs, hops, something like that. Is this brand real mead?

Answer 1

Most definitions of mead classify it as alcohol created by fermenting honey with water. That said, the important characteristic of mead is the fact that the majority of its fermentable sugar is from honey. Bunratty Meade could be classified as a wine-mead.