The Hive Winery

The other day I was hanging out with my mom and we decided we wanted to go do some wine tasting. My mom had heard of the place through friends but I had no idea it even existed. I think its so cool that we have a winery in layton, especially since they use local products and specalize in fruit and honey wines! Yum!
They were founded in December of 2010 at 1220 West Jack D Drive, Suite 2, Layton, UT 84041 and have wines are designed to complement any meal and vary in sweetness levels from dry to semi-sweet.

Their motto is: To bring fruit and honey wines to all....for a good buzzz.
Our wines will be crafted using fruit and honey from local farmers whenever possible. Our honey is currently provided by Cox Honey Land in Cache Valley. The raspberries and black currents are provided by Week’s Berries of Paradise in Cache Valley. Peaches, pears, cherries, and apricots are all provided from local farms along the Wasatch Front. Unfortunately, Utah does not have a favorable climate for growing blueberries, blackberries, cranberries and pomegranates however we have found suppliers who will supply us with these and many other types of exotic fruits.

They make all of there wine in a warehouse located in the back of their store.

Their batch sizes vary from 30 to 100 gallons which will produce 150 to 500 bottles per batch. This micro-batching allows for a larger variety of wines with different varieties becoming available throughout the year. Their wines include raspberry wine, raspberry melomel (honey wine), black currant wine, black currant melomel, strawberry wine, meads (honey wine) in several sweetness, blackberry wine, blackberry melomel, peach wine, apricot wine, tart cherry wine, sweet cherry wine, pear wine, blueberry wine, cranberry wine, and pomegranate wine. They will also have limited runs of fruit meads which are blends of fruit wine and honey wine. Many other micro batch wine will be available throughout the upcoming years.

The store inside is so awesome, they sell not only their wines but wine glasses with their name and logo and they also have a stand with local art made from used and recycled wine bottles. To the left right after you walk through the front door is the wine tasting table where they let you taste 5 of their different wines. It was so hard to choose which flavors because they all sounded so good. Their seasonal cranberry wine was so yummy and went perfect with the Thanksgiving turkey.

My absolute favorite was the black currant wine, it had the kick of a red wine but was followed with a sweet honey aftertaste. It was so delicious!

They also had different flavors of cheese to go along and from the local Beehive Cheese Company on 89. The particular cheese pairing to my black currant wine was an espresso and lavender rubbed cheese called Barely Buzzed. Oh it was so good!