Welcome to Contrivance Wine & Mead Co.

Award-winning meadery just south of Seattle, WA

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Come Visit Us

 


Got Mead? We are an award-winning family owned and operated Meadery conveniently located in Tukwila WA near the I405 and I5 interchange just south of Seattle. We hand-craft small batches of premium honey wine (mead) in many different flavors. We aim to have something for everyone. We have meads featuring sweetness levels ranging from dry to dessert wine. Our meadery has tasting flights ($10 per person, refundable with bottle purchase) and glass pours, and of course we encourage adopting bottles of your favorites for later.  We also have a mead subscription club where members get first access to new flavors and a 20% discount on all bottles! If you have never tried mead before you owe it to yourself to come visit us!


Small batch premium wine outside of Woodinville? Yes it’s possible! We specialize in red wine, but of course we make white wine too. We are located only a couple blocks from Total Wine in Tukwila, near Southcenter mall. With everything from barrel-aged reds to stainless fermented white wines, we love them all and think you will too. We are also known to put wine & mead into bourbon barrels for aging, with incredible results.

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  • Our Summer Spyglass tropical session mead is the perfect thing for the long weekend. At 6.75% ABV you can sip it in the afternoon sun without getting too festive. 😉 Or you can pour one out for fallen heroes.
  • We’ll provide the drinks 😆
  • Our new session mead “Summer Spyglass” is available now. This fizzy mix of tropical fruits and honey comes in at 6.75% ABV, and is available in cans and on tap in our tasting room.  Oh and of course we have our new batch of Berry’d Gold too, which is a fruity mix of blackberry, blueberry, and raspberry which was aged in French oak barrels. Unlike the situation in this meme, you CAN have both 😂
  • Come on out to the Burien Farmers Market on this beautiful day. Our Berry'd Gold Mead and canned Summer Spyglass (tropical mead) are available.

#burienfarmersmarket #GoodMornin #thirstythursday #motherdaygift #mead #tropicalmead #sessionmead #berrymead #washingtonmead #outinthesun #beautifulday #supportlocal
  • At least this time we actually had some of our highest scoring mead left when these awards were announced 😆. We took home 2 golds and 3 silvers this year at the Washington Wine Awards.
  • We had a few slots open up in the Contrivance Mead Club. If you’ve been thinking about it now is a great time to jump on the airship with us. Our next club selections include a new summer session mead and a new batch of our award winning mixed berry mead, Berry’d Gold!

https://www.drinkcontrivance.com/contrivance-mead-club/

#meadclub #savemoney #contrivance #drinkmead
  • We’re at the Puyallup market and the Maple Valley market today. Come say hi!
  • Effective this week we will be opening later on Saturdays (3pm) but staying open an hour later than we used to (until 7pm). If you need mead earlier in the day, you'll have to come find us at one of the farmer's markets.
  • This event is always lots of fun. Don’t miss it!
Our Summer Spyglass tropical session mead is the perfect thing for the long weekend. At 6.75% ABV you can sip it in the afternoon sun without getting too festive. 😉 Or you can pour one out for fallen heroes.
Our Summer Spyglass tropical session mead is the perfect thing for the long weekend. At 6.75% ABV you can sip it in the afternoon sun without getting too festive. 😉 Or you can pour one out for fallen heroes.
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We’ll provide the drinks 😆
We’ll provide the drinks 😆
1 week ago
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Our new session mead “Summer Spyglass” is available now. This fizzy mix of tropical fruits and honey comes in at 6.75% ABV, and is available in cans and on tap in our tasting room.  Oh and of course we have our new batch of Berry’d Gold too, which is a fruity mix of blackberry, blueberry, and raspberry which was aged in French oak barrels. Unlike the situation in this meme, you CAN have both 😂
Our new session mead “Summer Spyglass” is available now. This fizzy mix of tropical fruits and honey comes in at 6.75% ABV, and is available in cans and on tap in our tasting room. Oh and of course we have our new batch of Berry’d Gold too, which is a fruity mix of blackberry, blueberry, and raspberry which was aged in French oak barrels. Unlike the situation in this meme, you CAN have both 😂
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Come on out to the Burien Farmers Market on this beautiful day. Our Berry'd Gold Mead and canned Summer Spyglass (tropical mead) are available.

#burienfarmersmarket #GoodMornin #thirstythursday #motherdaygift #mead #tropicalmead #sessionmead #berrymead #washingtonmead #outinthesun #beautifulday #supportlocal
Come on out to the Burien Farmers Market on this beautiful day. Our Berry'd Gold Mead and canned Summer Spyglass (tropical mead) are available. #burienfarmersmarket #GoodMornin #thirstythursday #motherdaygift #mead #tropicalmead #sessionmead #berrymead #washingtonmead #outinthesun #beautifulday #supportlocal
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At least this time we actually had some of our highest scoring mead left when these awards were announced 😆. We took home 2 golds and 3 silvers this year at the Washington Wine Awards.
At least this time we actually had some of our highest scoring mead left when these awards were announced 😆. We took home 2 golds and 3 silvers this year at the Washington Wine Awards.
2 weeks ago
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We had a few slots open up in the Contrivance Mead Club. If you’ve been thinking about it now is a great time to jump on the airship with us. Our next club selections include a new summer session mead and a new batch of our award winning mixed berry mead, Berry’d Gold!

https://www.drinkcontrivance.com/contrivance-mead-club/

#meadclub #savemoney #contrivance #drinkmead
We had a few slots open up in the Contrivance Mead Club. If you’ve been thinking about it now is a great time to jump on the airship with us. Our next club selections include a new summer session mead and a new batch of our award winning mixed berry mead, Berry’d Gold! https://www.drinkcontrivance.com/contrivance-mead-club/ #meadclub #savemoney #contrivance #drinkmead
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We’re at the Puyallup market and the Maple Valley market today. Come say hi!
We’re at the Puyallup market and the Maple Valley market today. Come say hi!
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Effective this week we will be opening later on Saturdays (3pm) but staying open an hour later than we used to (until 7pm). If you need mead earlier in the day, you'll have to come find us at one of the farmer's markets.
Effective this week we will be opening later on Saturdays (3pm) but staying open an hour later than we used to (until 7pm). If you need mead earlier in the day, you'll have to come find us at one of the farmer's markets.
3 weeks ago
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This event is always lots of fun. Don’t miss it!
This event is always lots of fun. Don’t miss it!
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