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Wild about Honey
Raw Algarvian Heather Honey - Urze - by Wild about Honey
£12.99
Visit product page →Another 3 Star Great Taste Award Winning Honey in 2020. Featured in the Times as a special selection of Thomasina Miers and Michel Roux.
This is some of what they had to say about it.
"Rich, dark, thick and luscious, with a distinct aroma of heather — this has huge flavour, with herbal notes, acidity and bitterness all wrapped up in the honey’s sweetness."Raw Portuguese Heather honey, locally known as "Urze", is a potent, rich, delicious, aromatic honey. Also highly esteemed for its antibacterial and antioxidant properties. Recent Portuguese studies show it to be more potent than Chestnut honey and very high in phenolic compounds
If you've bought our Heather honey in the past you would know that our Portuguese Algarvian heather usually comes from the "Erica" family of heather not the Calluna, or Ling like the Scottish Heather. It is not thixotropic or jelly like in that way, but is a rich dark, viscous honey. This is a truly rare and beautiful honey; smoky, strong aromatic.
The Erica Heather (at least 6 species of white and red) flowers in the winter months in the Algarve, it provides valuable food to the bees and quite often is not taken for this very reason. Should the spring flowers be late or the weather harsh, the bees will eat most or all of it, before it is taken.
This 2019 harvest, has quite simply been one of the very best we have ever seen, the quality is exceptional. It has depth, balance, complexity and a superb complex aromatic finish. Quite simply you will not find a better example of this honey. If you can find one at all...
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. Near a radiator or heat source is fine as it needs to go over 42 degrees C for a while to destroy enzymes and for sugars to degrade.
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wildabouthoney
Raw Greek Arbutus and Erica Heather Honey- ON SALE- REDUCED
£4.99
Visit product page →SADLY THIS BEAUTIFUL HONEY NEVER CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION LIKE ITS PORTUGUESE COUSIN. SO IT IS BEING DISCONTINUED AND GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE. TO £9.99 - PLEASE NOTE WE CANNOT OFFER ANY FURTHER VOLUME DICOUNTS ON THIS.
Arbutus Honey and Erica Heather honey need no introduction. They are both known and famed for their antibacterial and antibiotic qualities not to mention all the other health benefits of high quality pure raw honey. This beautiful honey which contains the nectar of both these winter flowering plants comes from the wild and unpolluted Panachaic mountain, far from any industrial agriculture or human activity, in the western part of Greece.
It has a remarkably fine crystal structure which gives it a texture much like a creamed honey and a has a superb bitter caramel taste. Little wonder it was the recipient of an MTA Platinum award.
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.
WE STRONGLY SUGGEST REFRIGERATING THIS HONEY, IT WILL KEEP BETTER AND LONGER, IT WONT CRYSTALLIZE HARD AND REFRIGERATION WILL NOT HARM IT, THIS IS OWING TO ITS RELATIVELY HIGH WATER CONTENT AND WILL KEEP OPTIMALLY FOR MUCH LONGER.
"I was only 13 years old when I started to work in beekeeping. I started with love and passion for beekeeping, producing many varieties of honey. The beehive is situated in the lower zones of the Panachaic mountain in the winter months, free from the reach of daily human culture or agriculture, the bees compose this exceptional honey which, with its consumption, is a protective shield for the human body, because it contains natural antibiotic substances in a higher percentage than other honey. "
