Anne, I've made a bit of mead in my day. It only differs from mead in that it is using a weak ratio and is distilled instead of racking off. Mead is made using a wine process and only the solid sediment is removed before bottling, distillation uses heat to separate the alcohols and remove them from the
water and other remaining flavor compounds.
Here is a pretty basic Mead recipe. My starting ratio was about 3 pounds of honey per gallon and the wine yeast mentioned.
mead recipe