Italian Orange Blossom Honey

Tasting Notes

Gorgeous, sunny color with warm notes of citrus, blossom, and salt air.

Ingredients & Origin

Sicily, Italy

100% Raw Orange Blossom Honey

About the Pollen

A gorgeous warm amber honey, our Italian Orange Blossom Honey tastes of golden afternoons spent driving the Italian countryside with the top down in a vintage Alfa Romeo, wind whipping at the ends of your hair scarf.

Paired with Ricotta or Pecorino Romano, it is easy to imagine enjoying this bright and citrusy honey under bright blue skies and a Mediterranean sun.

Fans of our Spanish Orange Blossom Honey will find much to love in its Italian cousin. Italy is the second largest producer of citrus in Europe after Spain, and we love the subtle differences in character that you can taste between the two terroirs. Coming from the Sicilian region of Italy famous for its red oranges, Italian Orange Blossom is slightly less bright and acidic than its Spanish cousin, but still not dwelling amidst the sultry humidity of our Florida Orange Blossom. This Italian Orange Blossom Honey is our new favorite for charcuterie, fruit desserts, and parfaits.

Honey Facts

Our passion for teas...

We are delighted to be able to share one of the largest and most varied collections of single origin traditional teas on the East Coast with our communi·tea. Personally curated by owner Hayley, these teas come to us from small farms and collectives and represent the best of their terroirs and production styles. While wondering our shelves in-person or online, you will discover familiar favorites like English Breakfast and Long Jing (Dragonwell) alongside rare teas like Shan Lin Xi and herbal tisanes blended for mindfulnessinflammation, and much more.

& bees...

Raw honey is one of nature's most marvelous gifts. Not only is honey a marvel of energy-giving carbohydrates fortified with antioxidants, minerals and beneficial enzymes - making it the healthiest natural sugar - honey comes in a rainbow of flavors and varieties with something for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. From dark, robust honeys like Buckwheat and Chestnut to light or amber honeys like Tupelo or Orange Blossom, the subtle and sometimes not so subtle flavor differences between varietal honeys lend themselves to extraordinary flavor combinations and experimentation in the kitchen, on the charcuterie board, or in your favorite cup of tea.

all started with our Queen Bee

A trained chef, Hayley's vision for Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. has been her entire lifetime in the making. Though she was still drinking espresso at the time, the Tea & Honey seeds were planted in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with training and appreciation for food and beverage as not just sustenance, but experience and hospitality. Her time spent as a chef-instructor at Jacques Pépin's French Culinary Institute introduced her first to matcha (and its ability to enhance sustained and steady focus), then to the subtleties of single-origin traditional teas like high mountain Taiwanese oolong. As a celebrated and awarded taster and master of culinary arts, in 2015 Hayley opened the doors to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Since then, she has cultivated a communi·tea for discovering rare and exciting teas, extraordinary raw honeys & unique gifts produced by small farmers and artisans from around the world.