Sometime in January (hopefully soon) I'll be brewing my first mead (going to use a kit from Northern Brewer). I'm getting married in August, and hope to open my first bottle then. A friend of mine told me he and his wife brewed some mead 5 years ago, and they drink a bottle a year every year because it keeps getting better. My idea was to have my first bottle of mead for our wedding, then save the rest of my bottles and open up a bottle at each anniversary afterward. My question is, how long does mead keep improving? I know that wine is supposed to peak at some point; does mead do the same? (Not that my palate is smart enough to really tell when it's peaked...)