Coffee blossom
Raw honey · Raw · 350 g jar
Coffee Blossom Honey
Gathered in the ten days the estates flower white after the first March shower. Light and floral, with a finish like jasmine.
₹650
Honey that tastes of where it bloomed.
Collections
Four frames from the hive
Raw honey by the flower, comb cut straight from the frame, honey stirred or steeped, and the things the hive leaves us. Choose a frame to sort the comb.
The comb
Twelve cells, twelve jars
Hover a cell, or tap it, and it fills with that honey’s own colour. The flower, the jar and Add to bag are all inside.
12jars in the comb
Jamun
Raw honey · Raw · 350 g jar
Jamun Honey
From the jamun trees along the paddy edges in May. Dark, a little tart, almost spicy — good with curd, better off a spoon.
₹720
Shola forest
Raw honey · Raw · multiflora · 350 g
Shola Forest Honey
From hives at the edge of the shola above the estates, where a hundred trees flower in turn through winter. Deep, woody, a little smoky.
₹780
Coffee blossom
Comb · Cut comb · 250 g box
Coffee Blossom Cut Comb
A square cut straight from a capped frame, wax and all, never spun. Chew it as it is or spread it on hot toast.
₹890
Jamun
Comb · Comb in honey · 400 g jar
Jamun Chunk Honey
A thick slab of jamun comb standing in its own liquid honey, so you get both in one jar.
₹960
Karvi
Comb · Cut comb · 250 g box
Karvi Comb
From the season the karvi flowered and the far slopes turned blue. Pale, thick and quick to set; we cut comb only from that bloom.
₹1,250
Karvi
Creamed & infused · Creamed · 300 g jar
Creamed Karvi Honey
Karvi honey sets on its own; we stir it slowly for a week so it sets smooth, like soft butter. Spreads cold, straight from the jar.
₹820
Pongamia
Creamed & infused · Infused · 300 g jar
Pongamia & Cinnamon
Pongamia honey warmed only to hive temperature with Kodagu cinnamon bark, then strained. For chai and for cold mornings.
₹690
Cardamom
Creamed & infused · Infused · 300 g jar
Cardamom Garden Honey
Honey from the cardamom gardens under the shade trees, with a few green pods left in the jar to keep steeping.
₹740
Shola forest
Hive & table · Pure beeswax · 200 g
Shola Beeswax Block
The cappings from our shola frames, melted and strained through cloth into a block. For polishing wood, waxing thread or making your own candles.
₹480
Silver oak wood
Hive & table · Hand-turned · 15 cm
Turned Honey Dipper
Turned from fallen silver oak, the shade tree of every coffee estate. The grooves hold honey and let it go slowly.
₹350
All six blooms
Hive & table · Six jars · 60 g each
Six-Bloom Tasting Set
One small jar from each bloom on the hill, in the order they flower, with a card for tasting notes. The best way to meet the honey house.
₹1,650
No jars in this frame right now.
Hover or tap a cell to fill it · every jar has Add to bag inside
Where it blooms
A year on one hillside
Our hives follow six blooms around the hill. Choose one on the map or the calendar to see when it flowers, what its honey is like, and which jars it filled.
Mar – Apr
Coffee blossom
Ten days of white, jasmine-scented flowers across the estates after the first March shower. A light, floral honey that stays liquid for months.
Jars from this bloom
Feb – Mar
Pongamia
The honge trees along the estate road flower lilac at the end of winter. Amber, round and gently nutty.
Jars from this bloom
Apr – Jun
Jamun
Jamun trees line the paddy edges down in the valley. Their honey is dark, a little tart and almost spicy.
Jars from this bloom
Jun – Aug
Cardamom
Cardamom flowers low in the shade all through the monsoon, when little else does. A warm, mellow honey with a long finish.
Jars from this bloom
Sep – Oct
Karvi
Karvi flowers all together only once in several years and turns the far slopes blue. Its honey is pale, thick and quick to set.
Jars from this bloom
Nov – Jan
Shola forest
In the forest above the estates a hundred kinds of tree flower in turn. A deep, woody multiflora with a hint of smoke.
Jars from this bloom
From hive to jar
Four slow steps
Nothing is heated, blended or rushed. A jar takes as long as its flower does.
Follow the bloom
Hives are carried to the flowers at night, a week before they open, so the bees wake up beside them.
Let them forage
The bees work one bloom for two or three weeks. We open the boxes only to check that the colony is well.
Wait for the caps
We take a frame only once the bees have sealed it with wax — that is how they tell us the honey is ready.
Spin it cold
Frames are uncapped by hand, spun in a hand-cranked extractor, strained once through cloth and jarred the same week.
Kept the slow way
Visit the honey house
Come and taste all six
The honey house is open for tastings at the edge of the estate. Write to us for gifting, honey for a café or restaurant, or to ask when a bloom is coming in.
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