Chestnut

[Update] April 2, 2022 - Chestnut honey is my favorite honey, precisely because it is somewhat bitter, not sugar-like. However, the last two jars I ordered (9/27/21 and 3/8/22) show some crystallization at the bottom of the jar. Still good, yes, but chestnut honey, they say, crystallizes slowly. In plain English: the honey I got is older than I thought. Still good, of course, because honey never goes bad, but still... I will buy somewhere else.*[*Yummy Bazaar, in New Jersey, Italian chestnut honey]---------------I wanted to try chestnut honey. It is a dark honey, slightly bitter (as two other reviewers mentioned). It is entirely new to me and, I guess, it may be an acquired taste (like Roquefort was for my husband... years ago when a whole wheel cost only about $20). So, how many stars? Five for the moment, until I am used to it; right now, I prefer buckwheat honey.Update (Oct. 9, 2019). I love it. This is honey that should be eaten with a spoon; do not waste it to sweeten your tea or for cooking. Too bad, though, that the price is so high (close to $20 per pound). I shall look around and see if I can find it at local grocery shops.Update (May 26, 2020) -- Since then, the price has gone up; if you buy it in two seventeen-ounce plastic containers, it is still over one dollar per ounce. Too much! but I googled "Mira Nova" and there does not seem to be a less expensive supplier. Wait until October-December, when this year's production has to be "moved"; the price may go down.By the way, all honey prices seem to have jumped up starting in January: import tariffs, seasonal scarcity, inflation? Who knows? Meanwhile, try forest honey, and/or online suppliers like Yummy Bazaar and Supermarket Italy (Italy and Spain produce a lot of chestnut honey; but, still, the one from the Republic of Georgia is the best). These days, however, you may find that all the better "stuff" is already sold out.-------Update - August 2022Some reviewer tells you that this honey is too good to be used to sweeten your tea or coffee. That is correct. The same reviewer advises you to eat it on buttered toast/bread: wrong! Skip the toast or bread and the butter*; use a spoon [actually several spoons, so you don't have to wash it after you have licked all the honey].[* additional, unasked-for, information: both bread and butter are awfully fattening and should be avoided.]

I bought this along with over 30 honeys from around the globe for an exotic honey tasting party and everyone hated this one. I had no idea there would be a honey I didn't like! This honey is very bitter and gross, so I love making people try it. It's very unique and most people never suspect they aren't going to like it so it's so fun to have people try it. Because there really is no other honey like it, you need this in your collection and it needs to be included in any tasting party. (A good delicious one to balance this out is white honey.) I hope you all dislike it as much as we did! Try this unique honey today! It's worth it!

I enjoy other honeys with strong and unique tastes. The package arrived leaking honey making for a sticky package inside and out. When tasting the honey in the container it's extremely bitter and we thought it was rancid. Didn't last on our shelf and was thrown away almost immediately. This may be a good gag gift or something similar but if you are looking for a quality honey that pairs well instead of disgust, I'd go a different route.

The Caucasian Bee, to which Georgia is the central homeland, is the bee known for its longest proboscis, enabling it to extract nectar from the deepest nectar tissues, where no other species can. Therefore honey produced by the Caucasian bee is of the utmost quality. This is what prompted me to look for the Georgian honey, and I was happy to discover it on Amazon. This particular honey is from Chestnut tree and has incredible aroma and delicious taste. Once I tried a spoonful of this honey I have start craving for it nonstop. This honey is so good that it will blow your mind.

This is a very special honey. It's less sweet than your regular honey from the supermarket and has some tartness to it and features some great aroma.I understand that some people may not like it, but the honey itself is flawless. I already ordered 3 jars and they were all of outstanding quality.I grew up eating chestnut honey in Eastern Europe and this honey tastes exactly like the one I was eating when I was a kid.

#1 Chestnut honey I ever had in last 40 years. I used to eat chestnut flower honey right from its hive (in the same region), and so I am very experienced and picky when it comes to true chestnut honey.99% of the all chestnut honey brands in the market are not plain C.H. They are somehow mixed with other types of honey.There are 2 reasons you do not find 100% solid chestnut honey in the markets that they are mixing it with other honey. First, true C.H. is costlier, second it tastes bitter after a couple of tea spoon or so. These 2 reasons they change and ruin the original honey qualities and taste, perhaps up to from 30% to even 70% + would not know.Result you do not get the true taste, you do not get the full benefits of the real C.H. offers!But this C.H. is a gem and so the seller. I never seen such great packing!This honey I cannot describe but you should try I have to say. Most likely these people did not mix their original honey with other types at all! Or if they did it is so limited perhaps 10% do not know, just taste and qualities there for you that you cannot get any closer than this one in USA! I said perhaps mixed because it is slightly more sweet than I remember. Otherwise bitterness and smell is excellent! Thank you for this great product.

Did not enjoy or like this chestnut honey. I've had many brands in the past that I liked and would recommend - flavors were slightly different but enjoyable. There is a bitter, almost sour flavor comes through and gives an unpleasant taste. No..I would not recommend or repurchase.

i just came from georgia where i was enjoying chestnut honey every day and wanted to try it here. This honey definitely has chestnut taste, but it’s more liquid and more bitter, who knows why, i guess i was just expecting different taste and got little bit disappointed