Wanderer Mead began with a history teacher and a problem: Stephen ran ancient-history banquets for his students and, finding no commercial versions of the medieval drinks they were curious about, started brewing his own. It grew into a licensed meadery outside Launceston, working from Tasmanian honey and local fruit. The range moves from sparkling session meads and honey-fruit liqueurs through wine-style meads to Leatherhead, a honey spirit double-distilled from their own mead and aged in French oak.