2022 Marks 10 years of Wild about Honey. This premium range of personally selected rare and wonderful Greek honeys has been curated to bring you the very best of Greek honey. Needless to say, all our honeys are free from GMO's ,antibiotics, contaminants and are unpasteurized and as raw as when they were extracted from the hive. We take special pride in this range as it is the culmination of ten years of tasting and selecting the very best that mother nature has to offer. As with our award winning Portuguese range, all our honey is personally sourced and fairly traded. You will find medicinal honeys, incredibly rare honeys and honeydew honeys any of which would make a wonderful gift ( even to yourself).
£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 and pearlescent and the taste is just pure luxury, incredibly smooth and thick. 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.
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...
£4.99
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. "
£6.99
If there was only one honey I could use everyday for the rest of my life it might just be this one. This lovely dark, rich, smooth as silk honey is just unbelievably more-ish. It is subtle, slightly herbaceous, has a luxurious mouthfeel and has a very mild sweetness. It also has powerful healing properties for internal digestion complaints as well as mouth ulcers.
Like our Raw Vanilla Fir honey and Raw Pine Honey and Serra da Estrela Mountain (Oak) honey, this Raw Greek Red Fir honey is a honeydew. Honeydews are made by bees foraging on the secretions of insects that live off the sap of the trees. They contain a large percentage of long chain sugar molecules called Oligosaccharides. Fructose is a shorter chain molecule which crystallizes quicker and Glucose is the smallest sugar molecule and crystallizes quickest (think Raw sunflower honey), Nectar honeys are usually characterized by the presence of Glucose and Fructose in varying proportions.
This Raw Red Fir honey comes from the mountains of central Greece and is produced by Vaggelis, a young gifted beekeeper and entrepreneur who has been beekeeping since he was a teenager.
These honey would make a beautiful gift to any discerning honey lover.
£6.99
Our Raw Pine honey from Evvia is a classic, an incredibly smooth unctuous honey. Unlike other Pine honeys which can have a strong malty or even woody taste, this Raw Pine honey is smooth and mild, and fit for every type of use. It comes only in the month of August from Evvia in eastern Greece and is known by beekeepers as "August Pine" . Like all Pine honey it is a honeydew, much like our award winning Raw Serra da Estrela honey, or our Raw Vanilla Fir or Red Fir honey.
Greek Pine honey is also one of the most antibacterial honeys in the world, surpassing Scottish Heather, Chilean Ulmo, Tasmanian Leatherwood and many others.
This Honeydew is made by bees that forage on the secretions of Marchalina hellenica, an insect which lives on the sap of the Pine tree. It is a particular synergy of the insect and the tree at this time of year that enables this wonderful honey to be made.
Our rare and Raw "August" Pine honey is made by Panagiotos, a friend to the bees and a truly dedicated and talented beekeeper based in the Peloponnese.
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.
£7.49
Our Raw Oregano and Lavender honey is a wonderful aromatic, herby and perfectly balanced honey. This lovely summer honey has a delicate bouquet and a pleasing and lingering taste. The sharp herbal notes of the Oregano and balanced out by the sweetness of the Lavender which create this elegant and refined honey.
This honey comes from our friend Apostolos and is produced in Pelion, the mythical mountain of northern Greece, home to Chiron the Centaur, the teacher and healer of ancient Greece. A fitting provenance.
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.