Heather honey is dark in colour and can be reddish/orange to dark amber with its own particular flavour. It is a favourite with many people. The taste is tangy, pungent, smoky, and mildly sweet that leaves a long aftertaste.

We love heather honey - it’s a real delicacy. The heather in the Wicklow mountains only flowers for roughly 2-3 weeks per year so its always very reliant on getting good weather for that window. Thankfully this year we had a great harvest and are really proud of this delicious honey.

We were very excited to receive a bronze medal award from Blás na hÉireann in August of 2022 for our heather honey.

Heather honey been recently studied by Trinity and UCD (2018) to show it is comparable to Manuka honey. Ours comes from Wicklow and was harvested in the late summer.

Extracting this delicacy requires a lot more work than regular honey. Each year we move the hives up to the heather when it begins to flower. Heather is generally located in remote areas of the mountains which can be difficult to access. The honey is also known as a thixotropic honey, meaning it is like a gel rather than a liquid, and therefore, can not be spun out like regular honey.

You can order it here - enjoy!