Great Taste Award Winner 2022 and 2020
Every Year ( except for Last year) we submit some or all of our honeys to the prestigious Great Taste Awards, This year we submitted 6 honeys, 4 of which won awards and our Wildflower and Heather honey won the highly coveted 3 Star Award. We are honoured and delighted. Our Wild Lavender honey also picked up a Star as well the Mighty Arbutus, which already has a loyal and steadfast following for its healing properties as well as its lovely bitter caramel flavour.
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Wild about Honey
Laurissilva Cloud Forest Raw Honey from the island of Madeira
£13.49
Visit product page →The last remaining Laurissilva Cloud forest of ancient Europe still exists, a living breathing vestige of earths ancient past. A sub-tropical paradise full of scented flowering plants, and pre-historic laurel forest as well as plants indigenous to southern Europe. This magical honey is made by bees working in beehives sitting on the edge of the village of Sao Vicente on the wild and verdant North Shore of Madeira.
This raw honey is dark, rich and has real complexity, you can taste both the fruity notes of tropicals like passion flowers as well as dark earthy malty flavours which combine beautifully into a well rounded unusual and very moreish honey. It is also slightly more fructose than glucose so like all honey it crystallizes, albeit over a matter of several months.
We are lucky to be able to bring this honey to you as it is scarce, expensive and very hard to come by and has to be shipped from this outlying Portuguese island archipelago.
This honey is from a small scale artisan producer with a very limited production and you are very unlikely to find it anywhere else. Every batch throughout the year is distinctly different, we have tried to select the very best from this artisan producer, Mr Viera.
We think it is a little bit special and worth the effort we hope you do as well.
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Wild about Honey
Raw Algarvian Wildflower Honey 2019 - By Wild about Honey
£12.99
Visit product page →A 3 Star Great Taste Award in 2020
This 100% Raw, cold-extracted, unfiltered wildflower honey is one of the few multifloral honeys we currently sell.
Quite simply in our opinion this is one the best honeys we have ever tasted, bar none. From any country, any variety. This is a dark western Algarvian wildflower, made by one of our most experienced beekeepers who takes great trouble to produce this type and there is a very limited amount each year.
Made from bees foraging on the abundant spring wildflowers that carpet the hillsides and meadows of the Western and Central Algarve. This honey is made by the same master beekeeper who produced our other 3 star Great Taste Award Winning Heather honey. Parabens Pedro..
Wildflower honey can vary tremendously in colour and flavour depending on the location of the hives and the weather.
This wildflower honey is a dark and highly complex honey, made from the diverse wildflowers including Carob, wild Lavender, Borage, Narcissus, Daisies, Buttercups, Vipers Burgloss,, Lupins, and many more. A wonderful tasty complex honey for anyone with a sweet tooth. This honey is a timeless classic.
take a look at this wonderful site which shows the how wildflowers of Portugal.http://www.pbase.com/valterj/
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Wild about Honey
Raw Algarvian Wild Lavender Honey - Rosmaninho - by Wild about Honey
£11.99
Visit product page →100% Raw, cold extracted, unfiltered, Wild Lavender honey, is the backbone of the Portuguese honey harvest, known locally as Rosmaninho, This honey is to Portugal what Acacia is to Italy.
Raw Wild lavender honey made from bees foraging on the Lavandula Stoechas plant, a wild ancestor of the cultivated lavenders without the perfumed lavender smell. It grows extensively over the hillsides of many areas of Portugal including the Algarve and Alentejo, where our honey comes from. This particular honey is a medium-sweet, delicate, floral, amber, silky textured honey, with an almost fruity backnote. Very versatile, superb everyday honey. Produced in the Algarve hills by master artisan beekeepers and happy bees. Its hard to beat Rosmaninho.
You can either buy this fabulous honey here or pay 2.5x the price from Fortnum and Mason. Ours is hand selected from over 40 samples. They even liked our description of it so much they copied it.
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/portuguese-wild-lavender-honey-200g
You decide.
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...
