Honeys

Ivy

€2.00
Description

Ivy honey has an extremely high glucose concentration, which causes its lightning-fast crystallization while still in the comb. Ivy honey production therefore requires perfect timing in harvesting the supers to successfully extract the honey from the cells.

Gray in color with green iridescence, on the nose it is characterized by vegetal fragrances with a pungent note of cinnamon. On the palate it is sweet with a toasted and herbaceous aftertaste, with a peppery finish. Its fine crystallization is astonishing for its persuasive and plastic creaminess.

Color
Liquid
Crystallized
Pairings and uses

Ivy honey is perfect at the end of cooking on a vegetable soup and for “dressing” anchovies, in the filling of fried zucchini blossoms.

Combined with walnuts and blue cheese for a fresh pasta raviolo or for preparing gingerbread in place of sugar.

 

Plant variety

Perennial climbing plant with small green flowers grouped in a simple globular umbel that bows toward the ground and forms a corymb. Prefers fresh soils.

The alpha-hederin contained in the leaves has medicinal applications as an antispasmodic. In antiquity, the plant was associated with Bacchus because it was believed to counteract the effects of alcohol.

Accompanying pollens

Citrus, clover, black locust, vetch.

These are the possible nectars (belonging to other botanical species) present in the honey in a reduced percentage.

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