Honey from South Island of New Zealand
Clover Honey
Clover Honey: 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Clover honey is produced throughout most of New Zealand, but the South Island and Canterbury, Otago and Southland provinces in particular, are the prime areas of quality clover production. Clover honey is light in colour with a delicate floral bouquet and flavour. It is offered in a smooth creamy form.
It has a clean, very mild taste.
Clover Honey is everybody's favourite.
Vipers Bugloss Honey
Vipers Bugloss Honey: 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Also commonly known as "Borage", this wild flower covers the hills of the Central South Island in a sea of brilliant blue colour during summer months. The seed, resembling a Viper's head, was once mistakenly used as a treatment for snakebite giving the plant its unusual name. Vipers Bugloss honey has a very delicate flavour.
Hint: keep this in the refrigerator and you have a natural chewy snack for kids of all ages.
Rata Honey
Rata Honey (the best!): 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Southern Rata is one of several species of Rata found in New Zealand, but is the one that most regularly produces a honey crop, although even this honey is sometimes in very short supply. Anyone who has seen the Rata flowering in January in the Otira Gorge west of Christchurch cannot forget the sight of this brilliant red carpet covering the mountains. This area produces the purest Rata honey, very white in colour with a subtle, distinctive flavour, mild and rich - but not sweet, considered by many to be the best of New Zealand Honey.
Manuka Honey 8+
Manuka Honey NPA 8+ (internally: colds, sore throats… and could be used for killing H. Pylori) 500g - $16.50(CAD)
NPA means non - peroxide activity. This non-peroxide activity is found only in some Manuka Honey.
Manuka tree is found throughout New Zealand and often forms extensive areas of bush. The leaves are dotted with oil glands, and when bruised give off a gingery peppery smell. The flowers vary from brilliant white through to rose-pink. The Maori people used Manuka as a medicinal plant, from treating fevers and colds to sedatives. Early European settlers called it the "tea tree." Manuka honey contains a number of natural compounds with strong antibacterial properties. This is a strong flavoured honey, but with a fresh, clean bite.
Nodding Thistle
Nodding Thistle Honey: 500g - $9.75(CAD) OUT OF STOCK!
Found extensively throughout New Zealand, Nodding Thistle flowers in late summer with a brilliant large mauve head characteristic of thistles to produce a magnificent light coloured honey with a perfumed floral bouquet and subtle flavour - perfect for those who like a mild honey.
A winner of the US Fancy Food Show "Best New Spread".
This honey can bee addictive it is so good! It is made to complement your favorite teas, enhance your favorite recipes and great to eat right out of the jar. Light in color, not too sweet. It tastes like nothing else on this planet!
Honeydew
Honeydew: 500g - $9.75(CAD)
In the early morning sunlight, the droplets of nectar glisten like the morning dew, giving the name honeydew. Honeybees gather this nectar to produce honeydew, a process they carry out in many other countries in the world, most notably in Germany's "Black Forest."
A full flavour and aroma, heady, almost pungent, malty. A thick red amber honey and one of our strongest flavoured. Great in marinades to give a richness to barbeques or roasts. Full of mineral goodness, a typical trait of honeydews.
Tawari Honey
Tawari Honey: 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Tawari (Ixere brexiodes) honey is native to New Zealand. Tawari is a tree growing to a height of 10-15 metres. The 'beaujolais' of honeys, Tawari is best savoured when young. Its origins are the lowland forests of New Zealand's far north where the elegant tree's waxy white flowers, prized by ancient Maori, give the bees a light yellow nectar with a lingering butterscotch flavour. So subtle and mild, it's perfect for topping pancakes, waffles or ice cream.
Kamahi Honey
Kamahi Honey: 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Kamahi is a common tree found in many of New Zealand's rugged native forests, and is an excellent source of honey. The creamy coloured flowers are very attractive to bees and bloom in abundance throughout the Spring producing a light amber honey with a distinctive, full-bodied complexity of flavour preferred by many honey connoisseurs. Kamahi Honey is unique to New Zealand. Musky golden, clean, rich and sweet with a balanced 'buttery' finish. "This is a honey to be cherished."
Good for a spread or in cooking where a honey flavour is required in the finished recipe.
Rewa Rewa Honey
Rewa Rewa Honey: 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Rewa Rewa or NZ honeysuckle: (Knightia Excelsa) Tree reaching 30 meters is of a tall and tapering form. The trunk is up to 1 meter across. This honey is full-bodied, yet not overly strong and has a beautiful burnished amber hue and delightful smooth malty flavour. A hint of rustic woodsheds pervades the complex aroma. Because the distinctive clustered red flowers of this New Zealand Honey Suckle may not bloom well each year, Rewarewa is a premium variety. In times past the Rewarewa nectar was used to cure sore throats. "Red, warm and sweet, this honey is a taste of the Pacific sun"
Rewarewa is a great natural sweetener for hot drinks.
Thyme Honey
Thyme Honey: 500g - $11.75(CAD)
With a heritage dating back to the ancient tribes who cultivated the arid, unforgiving soils of the Mediterranean, Thyme continues to flourish today across Central Otago's similarly challenging environment. Its burnt grass colouring so aptly reflects the surrounding landscape.
An intensely aromatic honey. Thyme Honey is New Zealand's strongest flavoured honey. It is a member of the mint family, and the aroma and flavour of Thyme honey are herbal, pungent and distinctive enjoyed by the experienced honey connoisseur. Beekeepers' honey extraction plants in the Thyme area have an unmistakable smell to them, long after the Thyme crop has been extracted.
Thyme honey is a wonderful gourmet treat.
It helps relieve constipation, indigestion, bronchitis, asthenia and loss of appetite. Can be used as cough remedy.
Penny Royal Honey (Mint Honey)
Penny Royal Honey (Mint Honey): 500g - $9.75(CAD)
This delightful but smallest of the "Mint” family is highly aromatic. The reddish purple flowers bloom in clusters rising above one another in tiers enchanting the bees to flit from top to bottom collecting the exquisite nectar producing this unique minty flavour enjoyed by the honey connoisseur.
The honey has a strong flavour and is beautiful with meats, sauces, and marinades.
Saffron Honey
Eight Moon Saffron Honey: 250g - $6.75(CAD)
Saffron Honey is used by traditional healers to alleviate fatigue and exhaustion, as it is believed to work to strengthen the heart and nervous system. It is also known to improve the mood and clear the brain.
Glaze any of the following with Eight Moon Saffron Honey before baking: Chicken, Breads, Scones and Buns, or Parsnips. Add a teaspoon of Saffron Honey to cooked carrots. Poach whole pears or chunky apple slices in Saffron. A delicious desert when drizzled over ice cream. Use as decoration on any mains plates on the menu and you will be surprised by the comments of your friends.
Barberry Blossom Honey
Barberry Blossom Honey, 500g - $11.75(CAD)
There is an earthy bouquet when you open the lid of this honey and a strong butterscotch flavour that is rich and full.
Barberry was introduced into New Zealand as a hedging plant by the European settlers. It now prefers the wild dry country where it has becomes a pest – but produces this very beautiful honey.
Avocado Blossom Honey
Avocado Blossom Honey, 500g - $11.75(CAD)
Its name is a misnomer. Avocado honey tastes nothing like the fruit, avocado. Collected from the avocado blossoms, avocado honey is dark in color and has a fairly rich and buttery flavour.
The bouquet and flavor of Avocado honey is strongly reminiscent of molasses with a rich and buttery finish. It sourced from North Auckland avocado orchards. Avocado honey is versatile and can be used for both sweet and savory dishes. Texture is very smooth, the taste is pleasantly surprising - quite unique and hard to find. Delicious honey!
Blackberry Blossom Honey
Blackberry Blossom Honey, 500g - $11.75(CAD)
Blackberry honey is the most abundant gourmet honey worldwide. Blackberry honey is sought after and purchased by honey connoisseurs and great chefs.
This Blackberry honey has a flavor that is crisp, mild and distinctive. Blackberry honey is a breakfast favorite for pancakes, toast, muffins and coffee. Some testimonials claim this is the only honey they desire! Every attempt has been made to describe the taste of Blackberry honey but the description will never replace the flavor tasted in your mouth!
Black Current Blossom Honey
Blackcurrant Blossom Honey, 500g - $11.75(CAD)
Pure Blackcurrant Honey created from the blossoms of the blackcurrant bushes in South Island of New Zealand.
It is pleasantly mild, rich and very smooth with an exquisite hint of blackcurrant finish. Refreshing and spicy honey which contains vitamin C. Blackcurrant Honey is a healthy heavenly sweet. This honey is so GOOD, You won't want to be without it!
Enjoy the delicious flavor of Blackcurrant Honey with your sweetheart!
Multifloral Honey
Multifloral Honey (mild and delicate taste): 500g - $9.75(CAD)
Coming from the South Island of NZ where nectar yielding plants flower under snow capped mountains...
Because many species of New Zealand's diverse, unique flora are concentrated in close proximity to each other, honey produced in these areas cannot be attributed to a particular type of bloom.