LITHUANIA | Li1, Spring Blossom | Li2, Summer polyfloral | Li3, Rapeseed | Li4, Linden | Li5, Buckwheat | Li6, Sosnowsky’s hogweed | Li7, Forest, European dark bee | Li8, Multifloral Hollow tree beekeeping | Li9, Vilnius city honeydew |
Li1, Spring Blossom polyfloral Honey
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The honey
A classic Lithuanian spring blossom honey, characterized by a soft, creamy texture with hardly perceptible crystals, a delicate flavor and aroma, and a light ivory color, sometimes with yellowish tones. This honey is the richest in pollen and glucose, since after winter bee colonies require higher amounts of protein and energy.
In spring honey, rapeseed nectar increasingly tends to dominate, but alongside it one can also find traces of goat willow, maple, dandelion, pear, plum, apple, cherry, and willow. Spring-flowering plants produce relatively small amounts of nectar, which is why bees usually collect it from a much wider diversity of plants, though in smaller quantities from each. The exact date of the first honey harvest is becoming more and more unpredictable each year. Extremely early heat, sometimes even followed by snow, then excessive rain for weeks which leads to swarming means that what we consider classic spring honey could soon be a thing of the past, with rapeseed honey now often dominating the earliest harvests. Aroma: fresh floral notes with hints of blossoming fruit trees. Taste: light sweetness balanced with subtle herbal freshness. Texture: smooth, liquid to soft-set consistency. The beekeeping
Today, Gintautas Končius manages as many as 300 hives in Žemaitija region, yet there is still room for romance in his work. According to his loved ones, Gintautas’s head is usually full of bees: he first thinks about how to ensure their well-being, rather than how to sell their honey, and is constantly seeking out the most favorable foraging areas for his colonies.
The honey you taste comes from the Aukštasis Tyras Wetland Reserve, where the European lynx population was restored a few years ago, and among his family it is affectionately known as „lynx honey”. |
