Honey from fields, Kings Somborne, Hampshire

130 jars from the fields of Hampshire — and a honey that tastes like the best pudding!

John keeps his bees on the edge of fields at Kings Somborne in Hampshire, and this June harvest captures exactly what that gentle, flower-rich countryside produces at its best. Pale, smooth and extraordinarily clean on the palate — it melts with a bright, zesty flavour like lemon meringue that lingers far longer than you'd expect from something so delicate. The kind of honey that makes you put the spoon down and just wait, because the finish keeps going. The kind of extraordinary honey that people who thought they knew what honey tasted like just love discovering.

John spent years combining beekeeping with shepherding — raising lambs through the winter, then turning to the bees in spring. He's cut back now and focuses entirely on the hives, working alongside a fellow beekeeper in his nineties who still refers to John as "the boy." John also has an engineering mind that never switched off — he helped design farm machinery in the 1970s that's still in daily use today. I loved being shown it all. Some people build things that last.

The details

• Limited edition: 1 of 130 jars
• 224g / 8oz
• John's story on the label — name, location, harvest date and number of jars produced
• The perfect "saw this and thought of you" gift for anyone who appreciates something quietly extraordinary
• British-sourced jars and labels

Delivery Sent 48-hour tracked with Royal Mail. Postage is charged by weight — two or three jars costs the same to send as one, always worth knowing.

Our beekeepers Every beekeeper we work with is someone we've visited — to walk their land, meet the bees, and understand what makes each harvest its own thing. All of them are committed to the landscapes their bees depend on, working with local farmers and landowners to protect and enhance the natural habitats around their hives.