'Veiled in this fragile filigree of wax is the essence of sunshine, golden and limpid... Honey, even more than wine, is a reflection of place...
(it) is the flower transmuted, its scent and beauty transformed into aroma and taste'
• Produced in bee-friendly Warré hives
• Produced from 100% natural comb
• Medicinally active (ranging from TA 21+ to TA 39+)
• Exceeds Biodynamic and Organic standards
• Cold pressed (not heated above bee colony temperature)
• Produced in permanent apiaries in isolated wilderness and woodland locations
• Honey is only sourced from our own 300 Warré hives
Tasting Notes by Mike Bennie
Instagram: @mikebennie101
Blue Mountains Polyflora (2023 Vintage)
Flavours: The new vintage of this seasonal wildflower honey heralds in a lifted, floral element, Anzac biscuit sweet-savoury-salty notes, Jaffa sweets, raw sugar and eucalyptus lift with some faint bush pepper characters, and a bergamot tea-like finish amongst caramel sweetness. Rich, round, rollicking and exuberant yet definitively complex and layered in its elements. There’s intensity here but also gulpability! It feels distinctly nutritional and wildly delicious.
Colour: Pale golden-amber, pleasingly cloudy and faintly speckled
Texture: A delightful gummy pucker after each mouthful, but mostly seamless and smooth, despite fine granular elements
Aromas: Dried apricot, Paperbark tree bark, orange blossom, molasses, wet slate, woody spices
Blue Mountains Polyflora (2022 Vintage - Sold Out)
A come-hither style honey that is evocative of place, with a coolness, floral lift and sense of ‘Aussie bush’ amongst its richer, sweeter elements. A softness in some regards, but detail in the flavours, with potent, lifted spice notes a feature. The fragrance is gentle but invites you in with sweet, candied characters and its lift of floral and alpine herbs. Such a complete honey and ultimately ‘high eatability’ in its feel.
Colour: Fudge golden
Texture: Supple, waxy and ultra-mouth-coating
Aromas: Sandalwood, alpine herbs, lemon-ginger tea, paperbark tree bark
Flavours: Lemon-ginger with a lift of piquancy, cinnamon spice, light caramel and white chocolate is strong from mid-palate through the finish
Blue Mountains Polyflora (2020 Vintage - Sold Out)
Feels regal and very rich but the ‘eatability’ of this honey is extraordinarily high. An almost medicinal character here, but the main qualification of this honey is incredible texture and mouth-coating generosity all the while retaining a sense of freshness and lift. More subtle, savoury aromas, flavours make a big impact and linger emphatically.
Colour: Vintage gold, thick-cloudy
Texture: Dense, slippery, velvety, sticky
Aromas: Honeysuckle florals, lemon blossom, crushed eucalyptus leaf, stewed apple
Flavours: Preserved lemon, white chocolate, Parisian almonds, mint, alpine herbs and finishes with toffee-like flavours
• Produced in bee-friendly Warré hives
• Produced from 100% natural comb
• Medicinally active (ranging from TA 21+ to TA 39+)
• Exceeds Biodynamic and Organic standards
• Cold pressed (not heated above bee colony temperature)
• Produced in permanent apiaries in isolated wilderness and woodland locations
• Honey is only sourced from our own 300 Warré hives
Our bee-friendly Warré apiaries are located in a diverse mix of eco-regions, providing an incredible diversity of nectar and pollen sources for the bees to forage.
The resulting honey has a complex, intense and ever-changing flavour profile.
The protected area is over one million hectares in size, rising from sea level to over 1000m in altitude and is fantastically rich in melliferous wildflowers (more than 1,500 flowering species have been recorded and 13% of the worlds Eucalypt species occur here naturally).
Importantly, and due to the large foraging radius of each bee colony, the honey is a distillation of the nectar from woodland, open forest, closed forest (rainforest), heathland, swampland, stream communities and the hanging swamps that occur on vertical cliff faces.
Due to this incredible diversity, no single jar of honey is the same; each speaks of the utterly unique landscape of the Blue Mountains. Our honey has a rating of TA 21+ (equivalent to UMF 21+ / MGO 899+). Eating small amounts regularly, straight from the jar should aid general health and wellbeing.
As our Wild honey is genuinely cold pressed from virgin comb it may be crystallised in the jar. Cold pressed honey often has a cloudy or opaque appearance and soft, thick, even texture with finely grained crystals.
Storage Instructions and Important Information
Store in a cool, dry and dark place. Best temperature range for storage and serving is between 15 and 25°C.
Our Wild Honey is bottled in glass jars and all orders are sent with Australia Post's ‘special wine order - fragile’ tape attached, which notifies Australia Post employees to carefully handle the parcel. We also take great care in packaging the product securely for transit.
Wild honeys from Warré hives contain bee bread (pollen fermented by beneficial bacteria) and propolis showing proven antioxidant and medicinal activity. In extremely rare cases, pollen can cause allergic reactions.
Our Wild Honey and Wild Honeycomb is naturally gluten free. It contains no wheat, barley, rye or oats or their by-products. Malfroy’s Gold facilities do not process or store anything containing gluten - we only extract and pack our own bee produce onsite.
Please note: As our honey is seasonal, wild, harvested from small apiaries, and bottled in micro batches, natural variation in colour, texture and pollen richness will occur from batch to batch. The honey you receive may be a slightly different colour from that pictured above but rest assured it is the same variety. We do not overheat, filter or homogenise our honey to make every jar uniform in colour and texture as that damages the nutritional integrity of the honey. The honey also naturally varies in colour over time inside the jar as it is a living product - this ongoing process will not negatively affect the wild honey’s taste or nutritional integrity.
Tasting Notes by Mike Bennie
Instagram: @mikebennie101
Blue Mountains Polyflora (2023 Vintage)
Flavours: The new vintage of this seasonal wildflower honey heralds in a lifted, floral element, Anzac biscuit sweet-savoury-salty notes, Jaffa sweets, raw sugar and eucalyptus lift with some faint bush pepper characters, and a bergamot tea-like finish amongst caramel sweetness. Rich, round, rollicking and exuberant yet definitively complex and layered in its elements. There’s intensity here but also gulpability! It feels distinctly nutritional and wildly delicious.
Colour: Pale golden-amber, pleasingly cloudy and faintly speckled
Texture: A delightful gummy pucker after each mouthful, but mostly seamless and smooth, despite fine granular elements
Aromas: Dried apricot, Paperbark tree bark, orange blossom, molasses, wet slate, woody spices
Blue Mountains Polyflora (2022 Vintage - Sold Out)
A come-hither style honey that is evocative of place, with a coolness, floral lift and sense of ‘Aussie bush’ amongst its richer, sweeter elements. A softness in some regards, but detail in the flavours, with potent, lifted spice notes a feature. The fragrance is gentle but invites you in with sweet, candied characters and its lift of floral and alpine herbs. Such a complete honey and ultimately ‘high eatability’ in its feel.
Colour: Fudge golden
Texture: Supple, waxy and ultra-mouth-coating
Aromas: Sandalwood, alpine herbs, lemon-ginger tea, paperbark tree bark
Flavours: Lemon-ginger with a lift of piquancy, cinnamon spice, light caramel and white chocolate is strong from mid-palate through the finish
Blue Mountains Polyflora (2020 Vintage - Sold Out)
Feels regal and very rich but the ‘eatability’ of this honey is extraordinarily high. An almost medicinal character here, but the main qualification of this honey is incredible texture and mouth-coating generosity all the while retaining a sense of freshness and lift. More subtle, savoury aromas, flavours make a big impact and linger emphatically.
Colour: Vintage gold, thick-cloudy
Texture: Dense, slippery, velvety, sticky
Aromas: Honeysuckle florals, lemon blossom, crushed eucalyptus leaf, stewed apple
Flavours: Preserved lemon, white chocolate, Parisian almonds, mint, alpine herbs and finishes with toffee-like flavours