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Michael Fields, Daryl Benitez, and Matthew Clemmons are launching Retro Meadery in Burgaw this summer. (Port City Daily/Courtesy Retro Meadery) BURGAW What was once the most popular drink in the world just ask the Vikings has been making a slow-but-sure comeback over the last decade, according to The American Mead Maker’s Association. Meaderies have been evolving fast since 2003, when only 60 existed in the U.S. By 2013, there were 200; by early 2016, 300. Today, the association counts 450. Southeastern North Carolina will add to that list when Retro Meadery launches its own brand of fermented wine this summer. Co-owners Michael Fields, Daryl Benitez, and Matthew Clemmons are in the early stages of opening their Burgaw-based company and are eyeing the old Harrell’s Department Store, located downtown proper. The independently owned department store popularly known as a filming location in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” closed in 2020 after 117 years ....