Producer: Mieli Thun
Location: Vigo di Ton TN, Italy
Flavor Profile:
A bright yellow honey with brilliant orange highlights. To the nose it brings aromas of toasted nuts and apricot jam. In the mouth there is an evident taste of drupes, particularly almonds and prunes. The palate is enveloped by the opulence and toffee tones. The finale is almost pungent with benzaldehyde, the typical aroma of the drupacee.
Accompaniments:
Excellent with cream cheese, sweet aged cheese and mountain cheeses.
Recommended Uses:
In a sauce with sour yogurt, to top a caponata, to glaze a chicken with almonds. in desserts, it’s perfect for the torta sbrisolona, or in the cream of mascarpone with chestnut pollen and peeled almonds.
"A noble ingredient” to be used in all culinary preparations, traditional as well as innovative.
Andrea Paternoster’s dream is to capture the unique essence of each variety of flower. A nomadic beekeeper, Andrea travels with his bees throughout Italy, carefully following the flowering seasons of dozens of different types of flowers, to produce a beautiful variety of monofloral honeys whose flavors capture the essence and uniqueness of each flower. Key to his art is being in harmony with the bees and his ability to follow the natural cycles and the myriad of blossoms as they play out along the Italian peninsula’s climatic and geographical differences.
Mieli Thun Monofloral Honeys are produced without pasteurization or additives. In this way Andrea is able to capture the pure fragrance and flavor of each flower species in the respective honey.