Tupelo Honey

Tasting Notes

Rich, light amber color with buttery taste and a finish of sweet southern stone fruits like peach and apricot

Ingredients & Origin

Florida & Georgia, USA

100% Raw Tupelo Honey

About the Pollen

Our raw Tupelo honey is known as the Cadillac of honeys - and this particular harvest is like driving one with gold-plated wheels! Sweet and buttery smooth, beekeepers have long considered Tupelo honey the best of the best.

A rare and difficult to harvest honey, Tupelo is harvested for only 2 weeks in the spring in northwest Florida and southern Georgia from the Ogechee Lime tree (also known as White Tupelo or White Gum Tupelo). Tupelo honey is typically light in color with a buttery sweet, stone fruit finish that is like no other.

Tupelo honey is also the only honey that does not crystallize in its pure unadulterated form due to its high fructose content!

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.