HONEY

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DELICIOUS HONEY OF CALABRIA

 

A must of Calabrian food is Honey, a delicious product, an authentic mediterranean piece of culture.

Main types of honey in Calabria, which SMAF LTD sells, are the following:

  • Wildflowers – ‘Miele Millefiori’
  • Eucalyptus – ‘Miele di eucalpito’
  • Fir Honeydew (Spruce & Fir)
  • Orange Blossom Calabrian
  • Strawberry Tree
  • Bergamot Flavored Honey
  • Bergamot Honey
  • Citrus – Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit
  • Chestnut Calabrian
  • Orange Tree Honey Calabrian
  • Spicy Flavored Wild Flower Honey.

Generally, it is used for the preparation of traditional sweets (Pignolata, Mustaccioli, etc…), but orange blossom Honey is employed also in folk medicine (bronchial infections). Only in recently honey has been characterized and appreciated as monofloral.

Main places of production are Amaroni (Catanzaro, Italy) and San Ferdinando (Reggio Calabria), where honey is of a ‘clear’ or ‘dark’ quality.

 

CHESTNUT HONEY

 

This kind of honey is perfect with Pecorino cheeses or with semi matured Pecorino, flavoured with Balsamic Vinegar.

The production comes from a very big diffusion of the chestnut trees, which often represent the wilder part of the Region, both far from the sea and best-preserved. The rich woods of Chestnut cover great extensions of the land.

This environment is pure and without traces of pollution, so that in summer swarms of bees release tons of wonderful nectar, which is perfect for delicious contrasts between mature cheeses and meat dishes.

Namely, this honey is full of impalpable grains of chestnut pollen and these give it a flavor decidedly particular, moderately sweet and bitter aftertaste.

The presence of pollen is due to the chestnut blossom, not particularly beautiful, but long with a sharp smell, sticky to the touch, rich in pollen and nectar, which, depending, on the altitude is everywhere in the months of June and July.

The outcome is a Chestnut honey very rich in fructose, which crystallizes only after a long time, dark (from brown to black), strong, intense, tannic and woody.

 

“MILLEFIORI” HONEY

 

Usually, this treasure of thousand of flowers, patiently elaborated by swarms of bees, is moderately sweet and wonderful with semi matured Pecorino, for example Mount Poro or Pecorino of Crotone.

The quality of this clear honey comes from a slow creation by spontaneous roaming of bees collecting the nectar from several floral sources.

The wildflower meadows of Calabria are the place where bees search wildflower floral sources. The natural conditions vary during the year, so that the taste of wildflower honey slightly differs from year to year.



PRODUCTS

bergamotto

Bergamot

Bergamot is a ripe fruit, yellow-lemon-colored, medium sized and tiny, and oblate, rounded or piriformis. The fragrant, delicate, persistent hues are appreciated by international perfumery.

salumi

Salami

Among the sausages, stand out the Calabrian "soppressata", seasoned salami (capocollo and hard sausage), the famous "Nduja" (sophisticated spicy and spreadable salami) and regional bacon.

olive

Extra virgin Olive Oil

The oils we guarantee are extra virgin olive oil with an acidity of less than 0.8%, virgin olive oil with an acidity up to 2% and virgin olives with an acidity not exceeding 1%.

olive

Dairy

Classic Dairy Products and sweet or seasoned Calabrian cheese, and the Pecorino cheese, made of pure sheep milk, plus other cheeses with different monthly seasoning and spicy flavour.

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