Luisa Wilderness Honey Set – with 3x 250g Jars of Organic Forest, Creamed Eucalyptus, and Creamed Heather

A beautiful selection of three 100% raw organic honeys from the wilderness of northern Spain.  The bees create the honey in the unspoiled mountains and forests in Asturias and Leon in the very north of Spain. This set includes Organic Forest Honey, Creamed Organic Eucalyptus Honey, and Creamed Organic Heather Honey. All honeys are coarse-filtered, unheated, enzyme-rich, and naturally antibacterial.

Product Highlights:

  • Includes: 3 x 250g jars of Organic Forest, Creamed Organic Eucalyptus, and Creamed Organic Heather Honey.
  • Origin: Harvested from the forests and mountains in Asturias and Leon in northern Spain.
  • Unpasteurised & Raw: All honeys are coarse-filtered, enzyme-rich, and naturally antibacterial.
  • Flavour Profiles: A range of bold, dark, and creamy flavours that highlight the diversity of Spanish mountain honeys.

Raw Certified Organic Forest Honey:

  • Raw, natural and one of the purest honeys because of the remote area it comes from.
  • Antibacterial, coarse-filtered, unpasteurised, and enzyme-rich. This raw Forest comes from the forests and mountains in Asturias and Leon. It is a green and unspoilt area in the north of Spain. This is a very high quality Forest honey, that has been recognised in the Great Taste Awards.
  • Forest honey is higher in natural fructose than other types of honey, and so this serves as good source of energy. Hence, a spoon of forest honey helps to relieve fatigue immediately, and the lower glucose keeps it from setting longer than many other types of honey.
  • The forest trees can include chestnut and Mediterranean oak as well as beech and pine. These large trees exude a sweet sap which the bees feed on, sometimes with the help of aphids who drill into the tree bark to release the sap. Some trees also produce strongly-scented blossoms, like the chestnut trees, which the bees love.

Luisa's Raw Creamed Organic Eucalyptus Honey:

  • This honey has a light and floral flavour, with a slightly savoury, beeswax aftertaste.  This is an easy-going, raw honey with a lovely, creamy texture. It contains traces of eucalyptol which gives it its fresh, revitalizing taste. It is perfect for situations where a milder flavour is desired.
  • This variety of creamed eucalyptus honey comes from Asturias, a largely untouched, wild and diverse region in the north of Spain. 
  • The eucalyptus tree is an evergreen, also known as Eucalipto in Spanish. It is one of the fastest growing trees in the world. Its essential oil is often used in aromatherapy as a decongestant and antiseptic. The trees are mostly found in Australia but also now in the Mediterranean.
  • Eucalyptus honey is particularly good to use in skin care. Its fresh clean aroma and soothing composition helps aid skin recovery and removal of blemishes, acne and spots. It is also extremely versatile in recipes such as meat glazes, cakes, flapjacks, breads and teas.

Luisa's Raw Creamed Organic Heather Honey:

  • Raw Heather is an amazingly deep tasting shrub honey with a depth of flavour similar to dark chocolate or black tea.  
  • Despite not coming from a tree, heather honey has similar properties to a tree honey, namely its potent taste, dark colour and antibacterial properties.
  • Luisa's raw Organic Creamed Heather Honey is a classic variety. Very popular due to its superb deep earthy flavour, rich but not sickly, balsamic but not savoury. It is mildly bitter but complimented by a balanced sweetness.
  • This variety of mountain honey comes from the bees feeding on the low lying heather shrubs found at the San Isidro Plateau in Asturias. Asturias is a largely untouched, wild and diverse region in the north of Spain. Luisa's hives are well away from sources of pollution on the San Isidro plateau.

About the beekeepers:

Luisa, her daughter Olaya and son Mario are passionate artisan beekeepers from the wild regions of northern Spain. Their hives are located far from pollution, in the remote national parks of Asturias and Leon.  Their organic practices ensure that the honey they produce is pure, raw, and full of flavour, reflecting the rich biodiversity of the region. This is a family operation and includes Luisa's mother Jacoba and her sister Ines, who pack the honey.

How Raw Honey is different from Processed Honey:

Raw honey generally means the honey has not been processed, it has come from the hive to the jar with minimal interference. Most supermarket honey is highly processed to make it look more attractive, usually it has been largely drained of pollen, heated and blended. Raw honey tends to vary from batch to batch, this is because it is not processed in a factory, filtered or heated to look homogeneous. Raw honey changes with the season and climate, the soil, what the bees feed on, and the nature of the colonies.

Please know that raw honey does crystallise

This is a natural process that occurs mainly due to the natural glucose in raw honey. For more information on why honey sets visit this article and for a more scientific explanation go to wikipedia.

About Us

Here at The Raw Honey Shop we take honey very seriously and we believe honey should be RAW, unpasteurised and 100% natural. Since 2008 we've been introducing our customers to a whole new world of pure all natural unpasteurised raw honey. With a product catalogue consisting of over 30 different raw and organic honeys we have a variety to suit all tastes.

Thank you for visiting our shop and we look forward to introducing you to a world of raw, pure and truly wonderful natural honey, the way the bees would want it!

 

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Luisa Wilderness Honey Set – with 3x 250g Jars of Organic Forest, Creamed Eucalyptus, and Creamed Heather

A beautiful selection of three 100% raw organic honeys from the wilderness of northern Spain.  The bees create the honey in the unspoiled mountains and forests in Asturias and Leon in the very north of Spain. This set includes Organic Forest Honey, Creamed Organic Eucalyptus Honey, and Creamed Organic Heather Honey. All honeys are coarse-filtered, unheated, enzyme-rich, and naturally antibacterial.

Product Highlights:

  • Includes: 3 x 250g jars of Organic Forest, Creamed Organic Eucalyptus, and Creamed Organic Heather Honey.
  • Origin: Harvested from the forests and mountains in Asturias and Leon in northern Spain.
  • Unpasteurised & Raw: All honeys are coarse-filtered, enzyme-rich, and naturally antibacterial.
  • Flavour Profiles: A range of bold, dark, and creamy flavours that highlight the diversity of Spanish mountain honeys.

Raw Certified Organic Forest Honey:

  • Raw, natural and one of the purest honeys because of the remote area it comes from.
  • Antibacterial, coarse-filtered, unpasteurised, and enzyme-rich. This raw Forest comes from the forests and mountains in Asturias and Leon. It is a green and unspoilt area in the north of Spain. This is a very high quality Forest honey, that has been recognised in the Great Taste Awards.
  • Forest honey is higher in natural fructose than other types of honey, and so this serves as good source of energy. Hence, a spoon of forest honey helps to relieve fatigue immediately, and the lower glucose keeps it from setting longer than many other types of honey.
  • The forest trees can include chestnut and Mediterranean oak as well as beech and pine. These large trees exude a sweet sap which the bees feed on, sometimes with the help of aphids who drill into the tree bark to release the sap. Some trees also produce strongly-scented blossoms, like the chestnut trees, which the bees love.

Luisa's Raw Creamed Organic Eucalyptus Honey:

  • This honey has a light and floral flavour, with a slightly savoury, beeswax aftertaste.  This is an easy-going, raw honey with a lovely, creamy texture. It contains traces of eucalyptol which gives it its fresh, revitalizing taste. It is perfect for situations where a milder flavour is desired.
  • This variety of creamed eucalyptus honey comes from Asturias, a largely untouched, wild and diverse region in the north of Spain. 
  • The eucalyptus tree is an evergreen, also known as Eucalipto in Spanish. It is one of the fastest growing trees in the world. Its essential oil is often used in aromatherapy as a decongestant and antiseptic. The trees are mostly found in Australia but also now in the Mediterranean.
  • Eucalyptus honey is particularly good to use in skin care. Its fresh clean aroma and soothing composition helps aid skin recovery and removal of blemishes, acne and spots. It is also extremely versatile in recipes such as meat glazes, cakes, flapjacks, breads and teas.

Luisa's Raw Creamed Organic Heather Honey:

  • Raw Heather is an amazingly deep tasting shrub honey with a depth of flavour similar to dark chocolate or black tea.  
  • Despite not coming from a tree, heather honey has similar properties to a tree honey, namely its potent taste, dark colour and antibacterial properties.
  • Luisa's raw Organic Creamed Heather Honey is a classic variety. Very popular due to its superb deep earthy flavour, rich but not sickly, balsamic but not savoury. It is mildly bitter but complimented by a balanced sweetness.
  • This variety of mountain honey comes from the bees feeding on the low lying heather shrubs found at the San Isidro Plateau in Asturias. Asturias is a largely untouched, wild and diverse region in the north of Spain. Luisa's hives are well away from sources of pollution on the San Isidro plateau.

About the beekeepers:

Luisa, her daughter Olaya and son Mario are passionate artisan beekeepers from the wild regions of northern Spain. Their hives are located far from pollution, in the remote national parks of Asturias and Leon.  Their organic practices ensure that the honey they produce is pure, raw, and full of flavour, reflecting the rich biodiversity of the region. This is a family operation and includes Luisa's mother Jacoba and her sister Ines, who pack the honey.

How Raw Honey is different from Processed Honey:

Raw honey generally means the honey has not been processed, it has come from the hive to the jar with minimal interference. Most supermarket honey is highly processed to make it look more attractive, usually it has been largely drained of pollen, heated and blended. Raw honey tends to vary from batch to batch, this is because it is not processed in a factory, filtered or heated to look homogeneous. Raw honey changes with the season and climate, the soil, what the bees feed on, and the nature of the colonies.

Please know that raw honey does crystallise

This is a natural process that occurs mainly due to the natural glucose in raw honey. For more information on why honey sets visit this article and for a more scientific explanation go to wikipedia.

About Us

Here at The Raw Honey Shop we take honey very seriously and we believe honey should be RAW, unpasteurised and 100% natural. Since 2008 we've been introducing our customers to a whole new world of pure all natural unpasteurised raw honey. With a product catalogue consisting of over 30 different raw and organic honeys we have a variety to suit all tastes.

Thank you for visiting our shop and we look forward to introducing you to a world of raw, pure and truly wonderful natural honey, the way the bees would want it!

 

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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.
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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!
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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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