Our Honey

Honey is a fascinating natural product produced by honeybees in a complex process. Honey is mainly made up of sugar, which is why it is such a popular food: as a spread on bread, to enhance desserts or as an addition to tea, it is hard to imagine a household without honey. On this page, we would like to explain the exciting process of honey production, its importance to nature and give you an insight into our honey range.

The Production Process of Honey

Honey Collection
Production begins when forager bees collect nectar from flowers or honeydew from trees. These industrious insects can visit up to 1,000 flowers a day to store the sweet sap in their honey stomachs.

The Beehive
Back in the hive, the forager bees transfer the nectar to the hive bees. These process the nectar further by adding their own enzymes to it, which later make the honey so valuable. By repeatedly passing the nectar between the bees and storing it in open honeycomb cells, excess water evaporates.

Ripening and Harvest
As soon as the honey has reached the right level of moisture, the bees seal the honeycomb cells with wax. The beekeeper harvests the ripe honey by removing the combs from the hive and spinning them.

Composition and Characteristics
Honey mainly consists of different varieties of sugar and water. The valuable ingredients such as amino acids, proteins, enzymes, vitamins and minerals only make up about 3-4%.

Honey Types and Varieties

There is a wide variety of honey types that differ in taste, colour and consistency. The botanical origin of the nectar largely determines the properties of the honey.

Well-known varieties include blossom honey, forest honey, varietal honeys such as acacia honey or lime honey and manuka honey.

Sweet Cult Honey

To create a unique taste experience, we have combined honey with other ingredients to create a range of exquisite speciality honeys. The combination of natural sweetness and selected ingredients creates novel moments of pleasure that appeal to both classic and trendy tastes. Choose between spicy, sweet and salty or surprisingly different – the diversity of our creations invites you to discover whole new worlds of flavour.

You can find these and other honey specialities here:

Our Honey Assortment »

Manuka Honey from New Zealand

Enjoy the Taste of the New Zealand Tea Tree!

From the mountains and valleys of New Zealand's Wairarapa region, we bring you this honey! In the rugged, steep slopes of the coastal ranges, the South Sea myrtle shrubs, known in the Māori language as Mānuka, grow. Honey bees collect nectar from the white blossoms, which contains a concentrated amount of the Mānuka shrub's properties. Handpicked directly from the beekeeper in New Zealand, this honey is selected according to strict criteria.

The purity and pollutant-free nature of the Mānuka (based on pollen count) are our top priorities. The Methylglyoxal concentration (MGO) of our Mānuka honey is certified by two independent laboratories in New Zealand and Germany, ensuring a double authentication of our Mānuka honey. Only in this way can the quality meet our high standards for natural honey, which has been valued in many cultures for thousands of years and is now appreciated here as well. Look forward to a creamy, honey-like aroma with a fruity and pleasantly earthy aftertaste.

Our Manuka Honey »