Sourwood Honey

Container & Size

$16.50

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.

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

Sourwood honey

I love it! One of my favorite flavors.

the best

the best tasting honey i have every had.

Sourwood honey

A teaspoon in the morning and a teaspoon in the evening before bed, my year round allergies are now slowing down tremendously .. I also use it for my ham steak and my toast, omw so so good!!

Ditto what I said about the smaller bottle of same.

Just what I wanted to go in my lemon and ginger tea! Good, light taste.

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