"A Mediterranean touch in an alpine valley"
In Valchiavenna, honey, of unmistakable purity, comes from the typical flora of the area, where rich blossoms give their product to bees throughout the eseason. The Lake of Como, mitigating the climate, allows the most typical mediterranean scents to settle down, giving this valley products a particular and unique touch. This special combination of botanical species covers the whole Valchiavenna and affects honey made from flower essences of different kinds.
Robinia, chestnut and lime bloom downstream and on the side of the mountains in May. These three kinds of tree are very important to bees: their nectars produce very different aromas such as vanilla, bitterish and aromatic and they can give life to amazing one flower honey. Regarding honey made from flower essences of different kinds, they combine their organoleptic features together with other diverse botanical species such as wild cherry, blackberry, clover, dandelion, willow and many others.
Nectar drops of different kinds of perfume and aroma (fresh, fruity, flowery, candied, sometimes a bit spicy) are carefully gathered to produce amazing honey, especially when heather, a meditarranean species flowering in spring, gives its crème caramel, a caramelized sugar-like taste.
This is a very lucky combination of aromas, unusual for honey from an alpine valley.
Going uphill, the forests there give room to wide areas where rhododendron, heath and alpine flora grow on alpine pastures. Honey produced there, though not found in abundance, is of exceptional quality: light, with a delicate and fresh aroma as from one rhododendron flower type; it has a strong taste as well as fruity, flowery and aromatic from the different flowers type of this honey, compensanting bee-keeper´s efforts.