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Sourwood Honey 16oz
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Sourwood Honey 16oz
Sourwood is one of the best honey varieties in the world. It has twice won top honors for "Best Honey" at Apimondia - a biennial convention for the worldwide honey industry. It has a floral-caramel flavor, buttery smooth, with a warm spice finish.
Floral Source & Origin
If you visit the southern Appalachian mountains in mid-summer, you may be lucky enough to see an American sourwood tree in full bloom. The trees are covered with showy clusters of white blossoms, which resemble a Lily of the Valley flower. Hence one of the nicknames for the sourwood tree -- Lily of the Valley Tree. Good numbers of these trees are found in North Carolina and Georgia.
Making sourwood honey is not easy. Sourwood trees are scattered here and there on uneven terrain. Beekeepers have to find a flat area to place a few dozen hives and then hope the bees can find the sourwood blooms on nearby hills and mountains. Frequent summer thunderstorms often interrupt nectar collection. As a result, sourwood honey crops tend to be modest in size and the demand for good sourwood honey always exceeds the supply.  Â
Flavor Profile
Sourwood is one of the best honey varieties in the world. It has twice won top honors for "Best Honey" at Apimondia - a biennial convention for the worldwide honey industry. It has a floral-caramel flavor, buttery smooth, with a warm spice finish.
Recent Comment
A customer recently had this to say about our sourwood honey: "Surely this was the honey that was in the Garden of Eden." Now that's saying something!
Available Sizes
We offer this remarkable honey in three sizes:
- 8 ounce plastic bottle
- 15 ounce glass jar
- 1 pound plastic bottle
The pricing shown reflects "List Pricing". If you would like a commercial proposal, please contact us. Thank You!
Supplier Name : Smiley Honey - United States
LAND OF LAKES AND HONEY
Located in the Florida panhandle, about an hour's drive to the east of Panama City, you will find our small town of Wewahitchka. This quiet place has two claims to fame - the beautiful Dead Lakes and delicious tupelo honey.
These two things actually go together. Tupelo trees prefer "wet feet" and they grow in large numbers in the many lakes, rivers and wetlands in this part of Florida. Each year, around mid-April, the tupelo trees come into bloom. Bees collect the precious nectar from these blossoms to make an exceptional honey. One customer described it as "food of the gods" and that sounds about right to us.
BRINGING YOU THE BEST FOR OVER 30 YEARS
Smiley Honey was started in 1989 by Donald Smiley. Like many great business startups - he first began working out of his garage. Donald came into beekeeping later in life, and he says it was like falling in love all over again. At the height of his operations, Donald had over 1,000 beehives and he was producing some of the best tupelo honey in the region.
In 2012, Donald decided to retire. He sold his beehives and honey extraction equipment to a local beekeeper, and we purchased the remainder of the business - the honey bottling operation.
While tupelo honey remains our best-selling product, we have expanded our lineup to include a number of different honey varieties. But we have retained the founding principle of bringing you high quality raw and unfiltered honey at a fair price.
"EAT HONEY - BEE HAPPY"
Raw and unfiltered honey is a wonderful gift from nature. It is loaded with beneficial enzymes, pollen, vitamins and minerals, which we preserve through minimal processing. Our all-natural, raw honey is about as close as you can get to reaching into a beehive and grabbing a handful of golden goodness.
Whether you eat raw honey each day for the health and nutrition it provides, or whether you are looking for that unique taste or premium ingredient that makes a memorable meal, Smiley Honey has the all-natural, raw and unfiltered honey you are looking for.
-Brian and Beth Bertonneau