£12.99
Another award winning ,100% Raw, cold-extracted, unfiltered, Orange Blossom Honey from the Algarve. A luxurious, sweet, floral, highly scented honey, full of the delicate scent orange flowers. Golden and runny when warm, sets with an extremely fine, smooth, creamy crystal structure when cold. This years Orange Blossom honey is even lighter, more delicate, floral and piercingly sweet than last years. It is like tasting an orchard of Orange flowers.
If you like your honey light, sweet and floral, this is the one. The Algarve region is famous for its citrus orchards and the orange blossom honey produced from this region has tremendous variety. We have tried to pick an example which is a true classic.
Perfect for use in or on desserts.
Please remember Orange Blossom honey sets or crystallizes quite quickly and is harvested in early summer, so if you are ordering in the late autumn or winter months it is unlikely to still be runny unless we have recently jarred another batch.
This is what the judges at the Great Taste Awards had to say about our Orange Blossom...
Honey and Crystallization. Crystallization is a completely natural process and occurs with all raw honey. The speed and size of the crystallization depends on variations in the balance of sugars, ambient temperature and to some extent water content If your honey is set hard, you can loosen it up by placing it in a pan of hand hot water, (and repeat as necessary) using a spoon placed in hot water first and of course storing it in a sunny/warm place in the house.
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You may find cheaper raw honey than ours, but you wont find better...
£7.99
Raw Vanilla Fir honey is an extraordinary honey and highly prized, both within Greece and internationally both for it's rarity as well as it's luxurious texture and delicious taste. It is the only Greek honey with a DOP, (much like Champagne) it comes from only 4 mountains in the Peloponnese of southern Greece and is uniquely difficult to produce for bee and beekeeper alike. Many years there is none to be had at all.
Its appearance is lush, golden and pearlescent and the taste is just pure luxury, incredibly smooth and thick. It has distinct vanilla notes as well as delicate floral and citrus. Being a honeydew it will not crystallize for a long time and will remain runny. It also has a very low water content which creates its thick unctuous texture. It's perfect with mild cheeses, desserts and cakes or just straight off a spoon.
Our Raw Vanilla Fir honey is produced by Panagiotos and by his permission I have reproduced a letter from him below.
Like all good quality Raw honey, it is received cultural wisdom and increasingly scientifically confirmed that raw honey is an excellent pre-biotic, highly antibacterial and a unusually complex superfood produced by master alchemists ( honeybees) transforming nectars and complex phyto-chemicals into food and medicines which are uniquely beneficial to human beings ( and other animals). It is also quite delicious.
All our honey is 100% Raw, Real and jarred in Greece to keep the honey in the best condition possible and to minimize any time between harvest and jarring.
"From the proud conditions of the Peloponnese,
Where there alone, nowhere else in Greece and in the whole world, are the immortal fir trees that produce this fine and rare honey...
The rendezvous with history is born on Mount Parnonas, with the blossoming of the fir tree starting somewhere in mid-May and then the fir trees give their unique sap,
Then our indigenous bees, with an abundant appetite, collect this crystallized sap with great difficulty, return it to their hive, where the struggle of processing it for food and storage in their hives begins, a difficult and complex effort for the bee as the nectar is crystallized like candy. . and it takes time and processing to be consumed by the bee and stored for future use...
And that is where the beekeeper steps in with absolute respect and admiration for this blessed insect and brings this treasure into your home.
What makes this honey so special, is not only its valuable properties for the body, not only its fancy appearance, not only its rich taste, but the endeavour required to produce it by bee and beekeeper together."
All this makes the "vanilla" honey to earn this special title of rare and special honey...