Hollow Oak Honey
Hollow Oak Honey
In ancient oaks split open by time, colonies build tall vertical sheets of comb against the living wood. The honey is deep amber and resinous, with the bitterness of oak bark at its edge and a note of dried fruit underneath.
Cut by hand from trees between 1,800 and 2,100 metres, leaving the colony two-thirds of its comb. Never heated, never fine-filtered. Sealed in beeswax with its batch number and laboratory report.
The wild colonies we follow across Anatolia give about four kilograms of honey a year in total. This jar is part of that four kilograms, which is why it is numbered.
From the mountain
A colony older than the village below.
Resinous and warm, with oak-bark bitterness, dried apricot and a clean tannic finish. Remarkable with walnuts, or stirred into warm milk at night.