OpenHive's Wicklow Heather Honey

Our heather honey was a finalist in the Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Awards 2022 and recently won a star in the Great Taste Awards 2022.

Heather honey is a delicious delicacy. Dark in colour, it can be reddish/orange to dark amber with its own particular flavour unlike that of any other honey.The taste is tangy, pungent, smoky, and mildly sweet, leaving a long aftertaste. The heather in the Wicklow mountains only flowers for roughly 2-3 weeks a year so it's always dependant on getting good weather for that window. You can pick some up here.

Our heather honey was produced in the Wicklow mountains in August 2022. We sell it on the comb just how the bees made it. Heather honey has been recently studied by Trinity and DCU to show it has comparable health benefits to Manuka honey. You can read that study here