Beekeeper Thomas sitting in courtyard with flowers holding jar of raw honey.
Wooden honey dipper covered in golden coloured chestnut honey with monastery of Mount Athos in background.
Multiple coloured beehives in the area of Mount Athos in north-eastern Greece.
open cardboard box with wrapped jar of honey and biodegradable loosefill made from potato starch inside.
    Beekeeper Thomas sitting in courtyard with flowers holding jar of raw honey.
    Wooden honey dipper covered in golden coloured chestnut honey with monastery of Mount Athos in background.
    Multiple coloured beehives in the area of Mount Athos in north-eastern Greece.
    open cardboard box with wrapped jar of honey and biodegradable loosefill made from potato starch inside.
Beekeeper Thomas sitting in courtyard with flowers holding jar of raw honey.
Wooden honey dipper covered in golden coloured chestnut honey with monastery of Mount Athos in background.
Multiple coloured beehives in the area of Mount Athos in north-eastern Greece.
open cardboard box with wrapped jar of honey and biodegradable loosefill made from potato starch inside.

Raw Organic Greek Chestnut Honey from Mount Athos – Deep, Dark & Award-Winning

This is not honey for the faint-hearted. Harvested with rare permission from the monks of Mount Athos, this Raw Organic Greek Chestnut Honey boasts a rich molasses flavour with bitter notes reminiscent of freshly brewed coffee. 100% raw, unpasteurised, and certified organic, it’s a dark, intense honey with a lingering aftertaste that sets it apart from all others.

Summary

From the sacred forests of Mount Athos, this chestnut honey offers a bold molasses flavour and complex mineral-rich profile. With a bitterness that lingers and a texture as thick as syrup, this is a honey connoisseur’s dream. Winner of a Gold Award at the 2021 London Honey Awards, it reflects the pristine environment and care taken by Thomas and his family of beekeepers.

Product Highlights

  • Extremely dark honey – nearly black in colour
  • Bold molasses flavour with bitter coffee-like undertones
  • Long aftertaste – lingers for up to 10 minutes
  • Gold Award Winner – London Honey Awards
  • High in minerals and polyphenols from Mount Athos soils
  • 100% Raw and unheated – cold-extracted and coarse-filtered
  • Certified Organic
  • Rare & exclusive – harvested with monk permission
  • Produced by Thomas – traditional beekeeper from Central Greece

Aroma

Deep, earthy and resinous with hints of roasted chestnut and woody bark.

Flavour

Rich molasses with a sharp, bitter edge similar to black coffee. Notes of roasted nuts and malt, finishing with a long-lasting mineral bite. Powerful and lingering.

Colour

Extremely dark, nearly black. When crystallised, it lightens to a deep, opaque brown.

Origin

Exclusively from the chestnut forests of Mount Athos, Greece. This remote and sacred region is protected by the monastic community, where beekeeping is conducted under strict ecological care. Rare access makes this one of the most exclusive honeys we sell.

Common Uses

  • Perfect on buttered toast
  • Pair with aged cheeses like Manchego or Pecorino
  • Stir into black coffee or espresso
  • Glaze for venison or lamb
  • Bold addition to dark chocolate desserts

👤 Producer Story

Thomas, a passionate beekeeper in central Greece, works with his father Giorgios and sister Elena. They combine traditional methods with modern practices to ensure bee health and quality honey. The family produces Greek honeys like mountain oak, red fir, vanilla fir, wild thyme, pine, and orange.

🧊 How to store your honey

To preserve its natural potency, store the honey in a cool, dark place. Light and heat degrade the enzymes that contribute to antibacterial activity. Keeping it away from light and high temperatures helps maintain its flavour, texture, and active properties.

🍯 Why Raw Honey is Different from Processed Honey

Raw honey comes from the hive to the jar with minimal interference. Most supermarket honey is processed to look attractive—drained of pollen, heated, and blended. Raw honey varies from batch to batch because it’s not factory-processed or heated. It changes with season, climate, and bee forage. We update this fact sheet based on the current batch.

🌀 Crystallisation

Raw honey crystallises naturally (so we cannot accept returns on crystallised honey). We indicate on the site whether the honey is runny or crystallised, but this may change. If you want runny honey and it has crystallised, it's easy to return it to runny. Check our Runny Honey Guide or read more on crystallisation.

🏪 About Us

At The Raw Honey Shop, we believe honey should be RAW, unpasteurised, and 100% natural. Since 2008, we've introduced customers to pure, all-natural honey. Our catalogue includes over 30 raw and organic varieties. Thank you for visiting. We look forward to sharing a world of raw, pure, and truly wonderful honey—the way the bees intended it!

📸 Representative Photo Disclaimer

Product photo is representative. The colour and texture of raw honey may vary by season and crystallisation level. Please check the product title and description for accurate contents.

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Raw Organic Greek Chestnut Honey from Mount Athos – Deep, Dark & Award-Winning

This is not honey for the faint-hearted. Harvested with rare permission from the monks of Mount Athos, this Raw Organic Greek Chestnut Honey boasts a rich molasses flavour with bitter notes reminiscent of freshly brewed coffee. 100% raw, unpasteurised, and certified organic, it’s a dark, intense honey with a lingering aftertaste that sets it apart from all others.

Summary

From the sacred forests of Mount Athos, this chestnut honey offers a bold molasses flavour and complex mineral-rich profile. With a bitterness that lingers and a texture as thick as syrup, this is a honey connoisseur’s dream. Winner of a Gold Award at the 2021 London Honey Awards, it reflects the pristine environment and care taken by Thomas and his family of beekeepers.

Product Highlights

  • Extremely dark honey – nearly black in colour
  • Bold molasses flavour with bitter coffee-like undertones
  • Long aftertaste – lingers for up to 10 minutes
  • Gold Award Winner – London Honey Awards
  • High in minerals and polyphenols from Mount Athos soils
  • 100% Raw and unheated – cold-extracted and coarse-filtered
  • Certified Organic
  • Rare & exclusive – harvested with monk permission
  • Produced by Thomas – traditional beekeeper from Central Greece

Aroma

Deep, earthy and resinous with hints of roasted chestnut and woody bark.

Flavour

Rich molasses with a sharp, bitter edge similar to black coffee. Notes of roasted nuts and malt, finishing with a long-lasting mineral bite. Powerful and lingering.

Colour

Extremely dark, nearly black. When crystallised, it lightens to a deep, opaque brown.

Origin

Exclusively from the chestnut forests of Mount Athos, Greece. This remote and sacred region is protected by the monastic community, where beekeeping is conducted under strict ecological care. Rare access makes this one of the most exclusive honeys we sell.

Common Uses

  • Perfect on buttered toast
  • Pair with aged cheeses like Manchego or Pecorino
  • Stir into black coffee or espresso
  • Glaze for venison or lamb
  • Bold addition to dark chocolate desserts

👤 Producer Story

Thomas, a passionate beekeeper in central Greece, works with his father Giorgios and sister Elena. They combine traditional methods with modern practices to ensure bee health and quality honey. The family produces Greek honeys like mountain oak, red fir, vanilla fir, wild thyme, pine, and orange.

🧊 How to store your honey

To preserve its natural potency, store the honey in a cool, dark place. Light and heat degrade the enzymes that contribute to antibacterial activity. Keeping it away from light and high temperatures helps maintain its flavour, texture, and active properties.

🍯 Why Raw Honey is Different from Processed Honey

Raw honey comes from the hive to the jar with minimal interference. Most supermarket honey is processed to look attractive—drained of pollen, heated, and blended. Raw honey varies from batch to batch because it’s not factory-processed or heated. It changes with season, climate, and bee forage. We update this fact sheet based on the current batch.

🌀 Crystallisation

Raw honey crystallises naturally (so we cannot accept returns on crystallised honey). We indicate on the site whether the honey is runny or crystallised, but this may change. If you want runny honey and it has crystallised, it's easy to return it to runny. Check our Runny Honey Guide or read more on crystallisation.

🏪 About Us

At The Raw Honey Shop, we believe honey should be RAW, unpasteurised, and 100% natural. Since 2008, we've introduced customers to pure, all-natural honey. Our catalogue includes over 30 raw and organic varieties. Thank you for visiting. We look forward to sharing a world of raw, pure, and truly wonderful honey—the way the bees intended it!

📸 Representative Photo Disclaimer

Product photo is representative. The colour and texture of raw honey may vary by season and crystallisation level. Please check the product title and description for accurate contents.

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What is the story behind Thomas and his family beekeeping operation?
The first thing you should know about Thomas is that he is very warm hearted and very passionate. Although his family have been beekeeping for many generations his story with us starts one day back in 2016. Thomas and his girlfriend Christina turned up at our warehouse in Brighton. At the time he was studying at the University of Brighton. He came with samples of his family’s Greek honey. This was fortuitous because I had been seeking Greek honey for some time but had not been able to meet any producers who met our standards. Anyway, we were blown away by the quality of the honeys, particularly the dark ones, like Oak. We learnt that the family beekeeping operation consisted of Thomas, his sister Elena, his Dad Giorgios and his aunt Ana. They were a small operation at the time but Thomas was ambitious and determined to grow the business. Since then, we have worked closely with Thomas and encouraged him to get organic certification and to focus on providing honeys, which are most popular with our customers, like Oak, Fir and Orange Blossom. Now his business has grown substantially, and he has gained a big place in the hearts of our customers – particularly following the floods in September 2023, which destroyed 300 of his hives. He has since recovered, thanks in part to donations from customers. His business goes from strength to strength.
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What is the status of Thomas’ honey?
His honey is 100% raw, meaning it’s never heated or filtered beyond coarse filtering to remove any debris from the hive. processed. This ensures it retains all its natural enzymes, pollen, and beneficial properties. In addition, he recently gained organic status. This means regular inspections and analysis of the honey. His bees forage in unpolluted areas free from pesticides and synthetic chemicals. Also, there are other requirements, such as no sugar feeding.
3
What types of honey does Thomas produce?
Thomas produces several honeydew honeys (honeys from tree sap and aphid activity). There is mountain oak, red fir, pine and vanilla fir. Then there is Chestnut, which is a mixture of honeydew and blossom honey. He has a few blossom honeys such as orange blossom and thyme. In addition, Thomas is developing some new products for us, including a mountain honey with propolis.
4
Where does Thomas keep his hives?
Thomas has most of his hives in the mountains of central Thessaly, where his Oak, Red Fir and Mountain honey come from. In lower areas of Thessaly his bees create Thyme honey. These are all very remote and wild places. On the island of Evia, he has hives for Pine honey. Thomas’ Chestnut honey comes from Mount Athos, which is in the Macedonian region of northern Greece. Then in the Peloponnese in the south of Greece he has hives for Orange Blossom honey. Specifically the hives are in the organic orangeries of the Laconia country. On Mount Mainlo, also in the Peloponnese, his bees create the famous Vanilla Fir honey, which can only be found in Greece, nowhere else in the world.
5
What else should I know about Thomas’ honey?
This is very much a family operation. His family oversees everything, from hive management to extraction and packaging, ensuring top quality in every jar. At busy times he will work with other family members, such as his Uncle Stefanos, who helps him with the Red Fir hives. In recent years, the honey has won awards in the Great Taste Awards and London Honey Awards. For instance, his Chestnut that comes via the Monks of Mount Athos won Gold in the London Honey Awards.
6
Any recommendations for ways to use Thomas’ honey?
Thomas’ honeys are very thick and strongly antibacterial. His Oak and Chestnut are ideal for easing the discomfort of sore throats and coughs. If you have a sore throat take a tea spoonful of his Oak honey and tip your head back and let the honey coat your entire throat. Do not drink anything for 10 minutes, so that the honey has a chance to properly work on the inflammation. You will find it eases any discomfort.
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Why are Thomas’ honeys so thick and antibacterial?
The Greek climate helps to reduce moisture in honey making them especially thick. This means the natural enzymes are more concentrated than in honeys that have higher moisture content. This may be the reason why Thomas’ honey generally has a higher Activity level than other honeys.

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