Help! Overly tart and dry cranberry melomel

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Laezy

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I have had a heck of a time trying to make mead or a melomel. My latest attempt was with cranberry honey with some cranberrys added in. I bottled the end result about two years ago. While smooth, it is almost undrinkable it is so dry and tart. Is this fixable? If so, how? Thanks.
 
If it is already bottled, not a whole lot left to do. You could backsweeten in the glass, with juice, or a simple syrup or even some sprite. You could put all the bottles back into a bottling bucket to backsweeten and rebottle, but that is taking on a hell of a lot of chance of infection and definitely oxidation.
 
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