Description
Mooving our bees in the Langhe hill, in the surranding of Alba, arriving until to the Alps, we obtain this wanderful and tasty honey.
Honey is a sweet substance produced by bees as a result of the transformation of the nectar of flowers.
Among the different types of honey, the Acacia Blossom Honey is without doubt the most known and appreciated in Italy.
It is a characteristic light-colored honey, liquid physical state, smell and taste light and delicate. These qualities are not found together in any other national production and are clearly much appreciated by the consumer.
An organoleptic level is generally liquid; may possibly appear turbid for the formation of crystals, without reaching a complete crystallization.
The color is very clear, nearly colorless to light yellow.
The smell is light, reminiscent of flowers or just fruity. The flavor is very sweet, with light acidity. The aroma is very delicate, typically vanilla, confit, very persistent and no aftertaste.
It is an excellent sweeteners because of the very delicate taste never cover other savour.
It become wonderful to taste it with blue cheeses like Roquefort or Gorgonzola.
Elementary information
Name of the product: Acacia blossom honey
Category: Honey
Net weight: 100 g or 400 g.
Ingredients: 100% Italian honey from Piemonte
… a little bit of history ..
To produce honey “Monoflorale” (one flower hoey) we adopt the practice of ‘”Nomad Beekeeping“.
First, it is good to know that the of bees does not fly more than 2 or 3 km radius around the hive.
The nomad beekeeping is a way to move the hives from place to place depending on the presence of plants in bloom. Moreover, these displacements enable the production of flower honeys allowing a better supply of the final product.
One time the hive were loaded onto special boats that went up the rivers towards the most favorable regions from honeydew. When you reached a certain waterline, the hives were full.
Today the movement of hives occur on the road: you load them in the night (when all the bees have returned) and unloaded at sunrise.
The movements are often functional changes in altitude, and the season progresses, beginning from the plains and valleys between April and early June, following the more blooms late July and August, ending with the harvest of honeydew, before return to winter in the plains.
This method, which turns out to have very high costs of management, is in ‘”chase” the various spring flowering and summer moving the combs with the families of bees. This allows us to choose the most healthy and unpolluted places with the greatest concentration of flowers.
… curiosity …
Man uses honey from about 12,000 years.
The most ancient depiction of honey collection it has been discovered in 1921 on the walls of the cave spider in Spain, dates back to the Neolithic period around 5000 BC.
A family of bees consists of one queen bee, many (from 6,000 to 70,000) workers (sterile females), from drones (males) and brood (larvae). A hive consists of a single colony or family.
The bees are on earth from 4 million years for the same current appearance.
Worker bees have an average life of 6 weeks in summer and are primarily responsible for supplying the hive with their favorite food, while those born in late summer or early autumn will live from 5 to 6 months will have a body more rich in fat acids. Their work is to protect the queen, to keep the swarm in glomere that will pass the winter at a temperature of about 30 ° C, and then, in February, prepare for the arrival of new generations.
In ancient Babylon, the just married couples received as a symbol of fertility, honey in a quantity sufficient for one month. (hence, perhaps, the honeymoon period).
To produce 1 kg of honey are needed more than 50,000 flights round trip from ‘hive to flowers, for a total of 150,000 km, flown to haul flowers that grow to a radius of 3 km from the hive.