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Ikaria Blue Zone · rawWinter heather · single origin

Ikaria Blue Zone Honey Heather (Anama)

The rare winter honey of Ikaria. Raw heather (anama) honey — caramel, toffee and a touch of bitterness, unheated and unfiltered. The one the islanders keep for themselves.

  • Raw, unheated, unfiltered heather (ερείκι) honey — harvested in January
  • Rich caramel-toffee flavour with a gentle bitter edge — a Greek delicacy
  • Naturally thick and slow to crystallise; high in minerals*
  • USDA Organic certified · 250 g and 460 g glass jars
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USDA Organic · Imported from Greece
Eurocert certified organicUSDA Organic certifiedImported from Greece

Caramel, toffee, a little bitter. Ikaria's rarest honey — perfect with chamomile, rose and Calm Tea.

Ingredients & origin

100% raw Greek honey from Ikaria — 250 g (8.8 oz) and 460 g (16.2 oz) jars.

Ingredients: raw honey. Nothing else. Unheated, unfiltered, unblended.

USDA Organic certified. Not for infants under 12 months.

Why raw Ikaria honey

Raw heather honey is naturally high in minerals and antioxidants and keeps its pollen and enzymes intact. Traditionally used in Greece as a winter tonic and stirred into evening herbal tea.*

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Shipping & returns

Orders ship within 1 business day from our U.S. fulfillment center. Standard delivery 2–4 business days; free on orders over $79. Unopened products can be returned within 14 days of delivery for a full refund — we send the return label, free of charge.

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The Heather Honey story

The last honey of the year

When everything else has finished flowering, Ikaria's heather blooms — and the bees make anama.

  1. Heather-covered hillside on Ikaria
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    The island

    Ikaria's rocky slopes in winter — the heather (ερείκι) flowers when the summer herbs are long gone, and anama is harvested in January.

  2. Beehives on Ikaria
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    The hives

    Anama is slow, thick honey and the bees make little of it. Beekeepers keep most of it for family.

  3. Greek yogurt with Ikaria honey and walnuts
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    The people

    On Ikaria heather honey is the winter honey — eaten with walnuts, in yogurt, and stirred into evening tea.

  4. Honey dipper with Ikaria heather honey
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    The ritual

    Chamomile or Calm Tea, a spoon of anama, and a slow evening — the island's bedtime.

Honeycomb with raw Ikaria honey
Raw, straight from the comb
Why raw matters

Nothing heated, nothing filtered, nothing blended

Heather honey is naturally thick — almost jelly-like — and full of protein and minerals. Industrial producers heat and filter it to make it pour; we don't. It's spun, coarse-strained and jarred.

Its flavour — caramel, toffee, a bitter edge — is what makes it a delicacy in Greece and nearly impossible to find outside it.

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heating, filtering or blending
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the one month it's harvested

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Ikaria · Blue Zone

The honey the islanders keep for themselves.

Raw heather (anama) honey — unheated, unfiltered, single origin.

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Ikarian hillside in heather season
What's inside

What's in the jar

One island, one season of flowering, one kind of bee — and nothing else.

Winter heather

Winter heather ερείκι (ανάμα)

Erica manipuliflora

A low, purple-flowering shrub that blooms when nothing else does; its honey is harvested in January. Its honey is thick, dark and caramel-bitter — a Greek delicacy.

Ikarian bees

Ikarian bees μέλισσες

Apis mellifera cecropia

The native Greek honeybee. Ikaria's hives are carried up and down the mountain to follow the flowering — thyme and pine harvested in late September, heather (ερείκι) in January.

The island

The island Ικαρία

Blue Zone, Aegean Sea

No industry, no pesticides, hundreds of wild herbs and one of the longest-lived populations on earth. The honey tastes like the place.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

How to brew

How to enjoy it

Ikarians never drink tea without a spoon of honey — and never put honey in boiling tea.

In your cup

  1. Brew any Greek herbal tea
  2. Let it cool for a minute
  3. Stir in a teaspoon of raw honey
  4. Add lemon — the Ikarian way

In the kitchen

  1. Over Greek yogurt with walnuts
  2. On warm bread with butter
  3. A spoon beside feta or roasted figs
  4. Straight from the spoon, when needed

Crystallised? That's raw honey doing what raw honey does. Stand the jar in warm water for ten minutes.

Greek yogurt with Ikarian honey
The difference

Raw Ikaria honey vs. supermarket honey

Most jars on the shelf are heated, filtered and blended until nothing of the place is left.

Ikaria honey
Supermarket honey
Processing
Raw — never heated above hive temperature
Pasteurised and ultra-filtered
Origin
Single origin — Ikaria, Greece
Blended from several countries
Forage
Wild, unsprayed mountain herbs
Monoculture crops
Pollen & enzymes
Intact
Filtered out
Additives
None — nothing added
May contain syrups
Certification
USDA Organic certified
Often unverified
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Linda L. (Anaheim, CA, US)

This honey is incredibly delicious! I have never tasted anything like this. It was so creamy and thick, and wonderfully sweet. It's so rich in flavor and different in consistency than regular honey, which is thin and more like syrup. I am definitely buying more!

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Debra D.A. (Havertown, PA, US)

Love the honey I use it in my yogurt everyday so yummy

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Maddy A. (Newark, NJ, US)

The Anama homey has a distinct flavor unlike the other honeys I’ve tried. Great for the tummy!

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Debra D.A. (Havertown, PA, US)

The honey is delicious I love the 2 flavors I have tried so far

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Lou D. (Castro Valley, CA, US)

Love it telling te rest of my family. Going to get more

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Anonymous (Longwood, FL, US)

Yummy tasting!

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Anonymous (Arlington, TX, US)

Amazing honey!!! Been buying it for months and love it. Amazing customer service as well

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Ian M. (Tucson, AZ, US)

The bees knees, my Wife had some with her tea and now she is a Queen Bee. Goes well with honey for that milk & honey flavor. Natures candy. 🐝

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Katerina G. (New York, NY, US)

The best honey I’ve ever tasted, hands down! Delicious addition to any of the teas, or excellent on its own. We served this at a wellness event and guests could not get enough.

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Anonymous (Sarasota, FL, US)

The heather seems to be very beneficial to our digestive health

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Kathleen

I really like the honey but was thinking it was going to be the same size as IKARIA greek honey i had purchased. Theirs is 16oz and costs less.

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Joyce T. (Toms River, NJ, US)

Love this honey. It's sthe real thing. Light and delicious on top of yogurt. The flavor is light and subtle. I will be a regular customer.

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Elsa D. (Yonkers, NY, US)

Really unique! Thick, and not overly sweet, more earthy and herbal. The flavor is strong, a little bitter but in a good way. It feels raw and natural, nothing like supermarket honey.

Good to know

Questions we get most

Ikaria is one of five Blue Zones on earth, and its bees forage on wild, unsprayed mountain herbs — thyme, heather, pine and hundreds of wildflowers. Our honey is raw, unheated and unfiltered, so the pollen, enzymes and aroma of the island are still in the jar.

Yes, it is raw and never heated above hive temperature. Raw honey can crystallize naturally over time — that's a sign of purity, not spoilage. Stand the jar in warm (not hot) water to return it to liquid.

Deep caramel and toffee with a gentle, sophisticated bitterness at the end — thick, dark and unlike any other honey. The rarest of Ikaria's three honeys.

A spoonful in herbal tea (Ikarians never drink their tea without it), over Greek yogurt, on warm bread with butter, or straight from the spoon. Add it once the tea has cooled slightly to protect the enzymes.

Indefinitely, when sealed and kept at room temperature away from direct sunlight. Honey is one of the only foods that never spoils.

Yes, from 12 months of age. Honey should never be given to infants under one year.

From our U.S. fulfillment center within 1 business day. Standard delivery takes 2–4 business days and is free on orders over $79.

Unopened products can be returned within 14 days of delivery for a full refund — we send you the return label, free of charge.

Complete the ritual

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The teas Ikarians stir it into, and the rest of the hive.

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Eleftheria, founder of Greek Superherbs, in blue against a whitewashed Greek wall
From the founder

Yia mas — to your health.

I grew up on Ikaria, where herbs were not a wellness trend — they were what my grandmother picked on the hillside, dried on the roof and brewed every evening for whoever walked through the door.

Real leaves and roots, never the broken dust sealed into a bag.

Every plant we sell is harvested at peak potency, hand-cut, air-dried the traditional way and hand-packed. Nothing added, nothing taken away.

EleftheriaFounder, Greek Superherbs

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Ikaria Blue Zone Honey Heather (Anama)★★★★★ Raw · USDA Organic · Ikaria
$38.80