Luisa’s Raw Organic Creamed Heather Honey

Raw, enzyme-rich and cold-creamed from the Cantabrian Mountains of Asturias—with a smooth, spreadable texture and a deep, potent flavour reminiscent of dark chocolate and black tea.

Summary

Luisa’s Raw Organic Creamed Heather Honey is a certified organic, coarse-filtered, unpasteurised honey from remote Asturias. Cold-creamed for velvety consistency, this shrub honey offers rich, balsamic depth with mild bitterness and balanced sweetness—a lush, spreadable indulgence.

Product Highlights

  • Certified organic, raw & unpasteurised
  • Coarse-filtered and enzyme-rich
  • Cold-creamed for smooth, fine crystal structure
  • Deep dark-heather colour and potent flavour
  • Balsamic-earthy with subtle bitterness and sweetness
  • Harvested from Cantabrian Mountains, Asturias, Spain

Aroma

Earthy and balsamic, with faint woody notes—evoking mountain heather and lush green valleys.

Flavour

Full-bodied and deep: dark chocolate and black-tea tones harmonise with gentle bitterness and mellow sweetness—rich without being cloying.

Colour & Texture

Dark heather-brown when runny, becoming smooth pale tan when creamed—ideal for spreading.

Origin

Sourced from wild heather shrubs across Asturias’s Cantabrian Mountains and hills—an untouched, organic-certified zone far from pollution.

Producer Story

In Asturias, Luisa and her family—Olaya and Mario—oversee traditional, organic beekeeping. Certified by the EU Denominación de Origen, they prize honey with full-bodied, natural flavour, paying meticulous attention from hive to jar.

Common Uses

  • Spreadable delight: Perfect on toast, crumpets, or warm biscuits.
  • Gourmet baking: Adds depth to pastries and rich cakes.
  • Beverages: Stir into teas or coffees for earthy sweetness.

🧊 How to store your honey

Keep in a cool, dark place to preserve flavour, texture, and active enzymes. Avoid excessive heat and light.

🍯 Why Raw Honey is Different

Raw honey is delivered from hive to jar with no heating, blending, or fine filtering—preserving pollen, enzymes, antioxidants and true flavour. Each batch reflects its unique terroir and season.

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🌀 Crystallisation

Creamed heather honey crystallises naturally and this fine texture is intentional—not a flaw. For guidance on altering texture, see our Runny Honey Guide.

🏪 About Us

At The Raw Honey Shop, we’re committed to offering RAW, unpasteurised, 100% natural honey. Since 2008, our catalogue features over 30 raw and organic honeys each with distinct stories and flavours. Thank you for exploring pure mountain honeys with us!

📸 Representative Photo Disclaimer

Product photo is representative. Colour and texture may vary by season and crystallisation level. Please check the product title and description for accurate contents.

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Raw Certified Organic Creamed Heather Honey Creamed

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Luisa’s Raw Organic Creamed Heather Honey

Raw, enzyme-rich and cold-creamed from the Cantabrian Mountains of Asturias—with a smooth, spreadable texture and a deep, potent flavour reminiscent of dark chocolate and black tea.

Summary

Luisa’s Raw Organic Creamed Heather Honey is a certified organic, coarse-filtered, unpasteurised honey from remote Asturias. Cold-creamed for velvety consistency, this shrub honey offers rich, balsamic depth with mild bitterness and balanced sweetness—a lush, spreadable indulgence.

Product Highlights

  • Certified organic, raw & unpasteurised
  • Coarse-filtered and enzyme-rich
  • Cold-creamed for smooth, fine crystal structure
  • Deep dark-heather colour and potent flavour
  • Balsamic-earthy with subtle bitterness and sweetness
  • Harvested from Cantabrian Mountains, Asturias, Spain

Aroma

Earthy and balsamic, with faint woody notes—evoking mountain heather and lush green valleys.

Flavour

Full-bodied and deep: dark chocolate and black-tea tones harmonise with gentle bitterness and mellow sweetness—rich without being cloying.

Colour & Texture

Dark heather-brown when runny, becoming smooth pale tan when creamed—ideal for spreading.

Origin

Sourced from wild heather shrubs across Asturias’s Cantabrian Mountains and hills—an untouched, organic-certified zone far from pollution.

Producer Story

In Asturias, Luisa and her family—Olaya and Mario—oversee traditional, organic beekeeping. Certified by the EU Denominación de Origen, they prize honey with full-bodied, natural flavour, paying meticulous attention from hive to jar.

Common Uses

  • Spreadable delight: Perfect on toast, crumpets, or warm biscuits.
  • Gourmet baking: Adds depth to pastries and rich cakes.
  • Beverages: Stir into teas or coffees for earthy sweetness.

🧊 How to store your honey

Keep in a cool, dark place to preserve flavour, texture, and active enzymes. Avoid excessive heat and light.

🍯 Why Raw Honey is Different

Raw honey is delivered from hive to jar with no heating, blending, or fine filtering—preserving pollen, enzymes, antioxidants and true flavour. Each batch reflects its unique terroir and season.

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🌀 Crystallisation

Creamed heather honey crystallises naturally and this fine texture is intentional—not a flaw. For guidance on altering texture, see our Runny Honey Guide.

🏪 About Us

At The Raw Honey Shop, we’re committed to offering RAW, unpasteurised, 100% natural honey. Since 2008, our catalogue features over 30 raw and organic honeys each with distinct stories and flavours. Thank you for exploring pure mountain honeys with us!

📸 Representative Photo Disclaimer

Product photo is representative. Colour and texture 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 Luisa and her family’s beekeeping operation?
Luisa has been a beekeeper for over 40 years. Going further back in time her parents and grandparents were also beekeepers. She runs a close knit family operation consisting of her daughter Olaya and son Mario, who are the beekeepers. Then her sister Ines and mother Jacoba (who is 88 and still working) help with packing the honey. Their company is based on the very distinctive honeys of Asturias and Leon, which tend to be dark and strong tasting.
2
What is the status of Luisa’s honey?
Asturias is a part of Spain where many people left the villages to go to the city in the 20th century. Therefore, it is a very wild and underpopulated region of Spain, on the north western coast of Spain. It is an ideal place for the organic honey production, which Luisa practices. Her honey is 100% raw – it is never heated or filtered beyond coarse filtering to remove any debris that remains from the hive. Therefore her honey has all the natural enzymes, pollen, and beneficial properties that make raw honey such a wonderful natural product. Being certified organic guarantees that Luisa’s beekeeping follows specific principles, such as no sugar feeding, the hives being made of natural materials, the hives being a specified distance from any non organic crops etc. There is monitoring by the organic certifier, which means inspectors can turn up without warning. Where you see where Luisa’s bees forage, on the mountain tops and in the forests that carpet the sides of the mountains you realise that this honey is super organic.
3
What types of honey does Luisa produce?
Her flagship honey is an organic Forest, which is dark and rich. On the mountain sides and tops there are both main types of heather honey. There is the heather from the genus Erica and there is the Ling heather, known as Calluna in Spain. This is a thixotropic honey, which has a jelly like consistency and is in high demand in western Europe and Japan. Then there is Chestnut honey and Eucalyptus honey. Luisa also has a range of creamed honeys, she creams Chestnut, Heather and Eucalyptus. This process gives the honey a smooth consistency, which is neither set or runny (and is still totally raw).
4
Where do Luisa’s honeys come from?
Luisa’s honeys mainly come from the region of Asturias, with some of her honey coming from the neighbouring region of Leon. These are wild mountainous forested regions. The heather varieties tend to come from the mountain tops, whilst the forest honeys come from the forests that carpet the mountain sides. In addition, the eucalyptus comes from the lower areas near to the coast of Asturias, where the air is moist and the climate milder, which perfectly suits the production of Eucalyptus honey.
5
Is there anything else I should know about Luisa’s honey?
Yes! Her honey has a Denominación de Origen (DO) certificate from the EU, which recognises its authenticity and quality as a unique product that has specific characteristics related to the soil and climate of Asturias. In addition, Luisa’s honey has won many awards. She exports some honey to Japan and there it was voted as Honey of the Year in the main honey competition there.
6
Any recommendations for ways to use Luisa’s honey?
As well as an aid when you have a cough or cold Luisa’s honey pairs very well with a Spanish cheese, such as Manchego. Pour a spoonful of her forest over a slice of Manchego cheese and see how the flavours set each other off!
7
Why are many of Luisa’s honey varieties darker than other raw honeys?
The bees forage on chestnut, oak and heather. These are honeys that are particularly high in minerals and antioxidants, especially Chestnut. The tannins (a kind of antioxidant) make the honey very dark and also give it a bit of a kick – you get a tickly feeling in the back of the throat when you swallow it.

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