Holiday Honey Specials 15% OFF
To celebrate the upcoming holiday season we would like to offer you a 15% discount on a selection of our Award Winning Raw Greek Honeys which make for an exquisite and thoughtful gift to any honey lover or foodie. ( or anyone else for that matter).
PLEASE USE THE DISCOUNT CODE: HOLIDAY15WAH at Checkout
This exquisite range of Raw Premium Greek Honeys, personally selected and curated by us from Artisan Beekeepers in Greece. As with all our honeys, they are 100% Raw, Real and Pure, mainly from pristine wilderness areas and ethically sourced.
Our Spectacular Vanilla Fir honey from the Black Fir trees of Mainland Greece, a thick, luxurious and incredibly rare honey, incredibly delicate, with strong vanilla and light citrus notes. Vanilla Fir honey only comes from 4 mountain in Greece and is the only Greek honey with a DOP. made by Panagiotos
The prized rare and highly aromatic Kalymnos Thyme honey made by Isabella on the eastern Aegean island of Kalymnos. This Thyme is stunning. It is strongly floral and herbal and is superb in herb teas, salad dressings and of course draped over yoghurt.
The incredibly smooth, rich and versatile Raw Red Fir Honey. The texture of this honey is unbelievably glossy, thick and smooth. It has perfectly balanced, woody and balsamic notes. Made by Vaggelis in central Greece. You can use this honey for almost anything, including marinades but its hard to beat on a piece of crusty thick bread or toast and creamy butter.
Last but not least, having just won a star at the Great Taste awards is our Raw Pine honey. This honey was selected for its superb balance and smoothness. It has a resinous sweetness which acts as a perfect accompaniment to cured and cooked meats and salty cheeses. Also made by Panagiotos in Evvia.
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Wild about Honey
Raw Greek Vanilla Fir Honey by Wild about Honey
£7.99
Visit product page →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... -
Wild about Honey
Raw Greek Kalymnos Thyme honey by Wild about Honey
£7.99
Visit product page →Greece is famous for its Thyme honey, and there is a truly amazing diversity of Thyme honey produced. Most of the Thyme honey tends to multifloral, that is to say it is quite obviously Thyme honey but with the presence of enough Wildflowers to change the character of it significantly from place to place.
Some of the Greek islands can be rugged, rocky and sparsely vegetated, and it is on these islands there may be little else flowering at the same time so the bees forage on the Thyme almost exclusively and produce Thyme honeys which are extremely Thyme rich and highly monofloral.
Kalymnos is a small island in the eastern Aegean close to Turkey which produces such a Thyme honey, it is rich golden and HIGHLY aromatic and prized for its medicinal qualities. This year a Kalymnos Thyme honey won 3 stars at the Great Taste Awards. It also goes without saying that Thyme honey is traditionally prized for its medicinal qualities especially for lung conditions, colds and respiratory health.
Our Raw Greek Kalymnos Thyme honey is produced by Isabella who wrote this beautiful letter about her relationship to beekeeping. It is produced in full below.
"My name is Isabella and ten years ago I returned after studies to my beautiful island of Kalymnos. Looking for something new and hearing for years from the old ones that the thyme honey of Kalymnos is really 'golden' (world famous) first in nutritional value and properties, and how important it can contribute to our health, I decided to get involved in beekeeping.
The process until the honey is produced in the hive and reaches consumption was more difficult than I initially imagined. It is a job that requires a lot of physical strength and a lot of patience. The hours you have to devote are too many and the fatigue is indescribable. But the result rewards you. As soon as you bond with the bees and this work, you can understand that the way of life of the bee and how a bee works is admirable.
So every year since then, many times with losses and difficulties, I try with love, patience and persistence, to make this precious gift of nature called thyme honey known to the younger generation, because it should be allowed to be enjoyed in every home. It is a wonder of nature. A miracle, which we are all entitled to have."
