Toffee and late-summer blackberries, with a long finish that shifts and becomes less sweet as it settles.
Richer and more adventurous than Eduard's Iver honey — this one has complexity built into it from the start. The kind of honey that makes porridge or yoghurt genuinely better and is a new flavour discovery. It's one of those jars that disappears quickly and leaves you wishing you'd ordered more.
240 jars from a Pick Your Own farm at Cookham in Berkshire. July. Bees with access to fruit crops, orchards and phacelia — and you can taste every bit of it.
Like all PYO farms, Cookham plants different fruit varieties to extend the flowering season as long as possible — which means Eduard's bees have an extraordinary range to forage across all summer. The phacelia — a cover crop that bees absolutely love — adds a complexity that makes this honey something different from anything else in the range.
Eduard has been keeping bees for over ten years, building every hive and piece of equipment himself in the winter months. His wife helps run the business while he's out with the bees, and I always leave them with as much honey as I do bee and family news.
The details
- Limited edition: 1 of 240 jars
- 224g / 8oz
- Eduard's name, location, harvest date and jar number on the label
- Sent 48-hour tracked with Royal Mail — two or three jars costs the same to post as one
