Summer Savory Honey – ‘Santoreggia’

Benefits: Eucalyptus honey is highly prized for its antioxidant and anti-bacterial properties. Considered beneficial against flu, colds, and respiratory infections, also traditionally used to help soothe and prevent urinary tract infections.

Tasting Notes & Tips: This honey has a highly perfumed aroma, and dark colour. Quick crystallising with a fine or medium crystals. A rich and deep sweet flavour, with light toffee and licorice notes, and a dry, almost salty finish. Try with yogurt and porridge, or in homemade chocolate truffles, or drizzled over some strong cheeses.

Provenance: Made by a family of beekeepers, whose hives are in the national park of Abruzzo, Italy. The bees forage on the Eucalyptus flowers found there in July and August.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.

Available Sizes: 340g

Raw Acacia honey made in Hungary and British Scotch Bonnet chillies.

​Benefits: Like all honeys, it’s a natural preservative, with antiseptic qualities that can soothe sore throats, coughs & colds. Chillies are also thought to help reduce inflammation in joints and support the immune system.

Tasting Notes & Tips:  Raw Acacia honey, infused with a pinch of dried Scotch Bonnet chilli. The chillies give the honey a distinctive peppery and fruity kick of ‘heat’. Try with cheeses, drizzle over grilled chicken and fish, roasted vegetables or anything that would benefit from a sweet and spicy element.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.

Available Sizes: 250g

Benefits: Make into a tea to sooth when you’re under the weather. Like all honeys it has antiseptic qualities and can be used on small cuts and grazes.

​Tasting Notes & Tips: ​A dark, rich, fruity honey. It’s got a smooth, almost soothing flavour. We inhale crumpets covered with it, and also like it drizzled over natural yogurt with some nuts and dried fruit on the side.

Provenance: Made by the Borzoni family in the northern Italian province of Piedmont. This honey comes from cherry trees in the Monferrato region, which is also well known for its truffles and wine.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.

Available Sizes: 250g / 500g

Benefits: A gentle honey, great for children. It may also help to keep your liver and intestines healthy, and its antibacterial properties have traditionally been used to help with any respiratory ailments.

Tasting Notes & Tips:  A  sweet, mild flavour, with a velvety texture. Great for sweetening teas, paired with salty hard cheeses (like Pecorino, or Parmesan), or for roasting with root veg. The Acacia tree is prominent feature of the Novara region of Italy.

Provenance: Made by the Borzoni family in the northern Italian province of Piedmont. Novara is a varied region in terms of the landscape; as well as miles of flatlands, there are also plenty of hills, lakes and dense woodland. The Acacia tree features prominently throughout.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.