What Makes Karkalla Honey Special?

• • Limited Edition: Karkalla Honey is a rare find – a true treasure for honey enthusiasts.

  • Unique Flavour Profile: Experience a distinctive bitterness, with notes reminiscent of fresh grapefruit, offering a bold and refreshing twist on traditional honey.

  • Pure Raw Honey: Sustainably harvested from our protected Ligurian bees on Kangaroo Island, Karkalla Honey is 100% natural, preserving the purity and essence of the island’s coastal flora.

It’s more than 35 years since Peter Davis last tasted this ultra rare honey.
 
Peter, the founder of The Kangaroo Island Ligurian Bee Co, was removing a swarm of bees from a beach shack at Hanson Bay, on the south coast of Kangaroo Island, in the 1980s, when he first discovered this honey, and he hasn’t found it since.
 
Until now! With only 17 boxes of honey harvested,  there are only very limited numbers of jars of this honey available and we may never get the chance to experience this intense flavour again.
 
Karkalla’s more common name is pig face.  The leaves, fruit and flowers of this native plant can be eaten and have a salty flavour. The plants have also been used for their medicinal qualities.  When it flowers it has very bright, nectar rich flowers that our bees love.
 
It’s a bittersweet symphony in your mouth! The green vegetal flavour develops from an initial grapefruit-like sweetness to leave a memorable bitter, chicory-like aftertaste. This honey is a great accompaniment to a cheese board (especially with salty, Greek or goats cheeses).
 
If you want to surprise your friends or family with a very different tasting honey, or you just want to secure your taste of this moment in time, then this is the one for you.
 
So even though honey lasts forever, this one won’t, and orders are limited to a maximum of 2 jars each.