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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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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Raw Portuguese Arbutus "Bitter" Honey from the Serra da Monchique by Wild about Honey
£13.99
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Raw Portuguese Arbutus "Bitter" Honey from the Serra da Monchique by Wild about Honey
£13.99
Arbutus Unedo "bitter honey", an highly medicinal honey, also known as Strawberry Tree honey, comes from only a few places, southern Portugal, Sardinia/Corsica and Greece. it has a truly unusual bitter/sweet complex multi layered taste and is not for the unadventurous! The closest way to describe it might be a bitter caramel. ( though some have used adjectives like "psychedelic".). To be honest we were a little doubtful when we introduced Arbutus honey to the UK, we wondered whether the bitterness might be too much, but so far you've proved our doubts baseless.Visit product page →Arbutus honey contains Homogentisic acid, a powerful phenolic acid.The antioxidant and antibacterial qualities of this honey are truly exceptional and it is one of the most antioxidant as well as antibacterial honeys in the world. Studies we have seen suggest that this is possibly the most antioxidant rich honey available much more so than Buckwheat or Chestnut honey.
Anecdotal evidence we have heard also suggests this honey does not cause blood sugar to spike and is often used locally by diabetics.(This is not a medical claim- please consult your doctor if you are diabetic). It is also known to be beneficial for lung health.
Arbutus honey is extremely rare and made in limited quantities and not necessarily every year, we source our Arbutus honey from 3 different sources each of which are quite distinct in character. This year Fernando one of very best beekeepers produced all our Arbutus honey.and it is superb. Not too bitter, Very palatable.
The Arbutus honey you buy can vary in flavour and texture over time depending on which source it came from. Some are very bitter and some are sweeter with a small percentage of Portuguese heather or Eucalyptus. They are all wonderful and beneficial. Arbutus honey is typically very expensive, but we try to bring it to you at a reasonable price so it remains accessible and not exclusive or prohibitive like active Manuka honey.
The bees forage on the Arbutus Bush, an evergreen that has many medicinal properties and flowers in winter.
Our current batch of Arbutus is the creamy pure Arbutus from Monchique and the vicinity.
This is pure highly active honey with astonishing antibacterial properties. Like an highly active Manuka without the price tag.
This is quite simply the best tasting and purest Arbutus honey available.
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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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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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.
BULK DISCOUNTS
please call or email us if you require any help making a bulk purchase. Thanks
You may find cheaper raw honey than ours, but you wont find better...
